Yet the very absence of such issues may serve as an implicit commentary on them; I have tried to maintain an essentially historicist perspective, in which our readings of the past are vitally dependent on our experience of the present, and in particular on the structural peculiarities of what is sometimes called the société de consommation (or the “disaccumulative” moment of late monopoly or consumer or multinational capitalism), what Guy Debord calls the society of the image or of the spectacle.
Modern/postmodern/contemporary readings require a knowledge of the past and cannot be removed from them.
Inherently, this goes against deconstruction which has text as independent yet does not go against its original view of reading within context
