Deconstruction is a literary version of Duchamp and Rauschenberg. Deconstruction theory says that no work has meaning. Any apparent meaning can be transformed into its opposite, into nothing, or revealed to be a mask for something distasteful. The postmodern movement contains many people who like the idea of deconstructing other people’s creative work. Deconstruction has the effect of leveling all meaning and value. If a text can mean any-thing, then it means nothing more than anything else—no texts are then great. If a text is a cover for something fraudulent, then doubt about everything
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