What is "deconstruct"

Usage examples of "deconstruct".

Once we recognize postmodernist discourses as an attack on the dialectical form of modern sovereignty, then we can see more clearly how they contest systems of domination such as racism and sexism by deconstructing the boundaries that maintain the hierarchies between white and black, masculine and feminine, and so forth.

You deconstructed Keynesian economic theory in eight and a half pages.

Deconstructing modern Keynesian theory is about as difficult as Deconstructing a fairy tale.

With rationality, these dominator hierarchies are deconstructed because they are not based on worldcentric or postconventional standards, and rationality is not happy short of that omega point.

IOU principle in literary holons, eventually let this truth spin all out of control, and in ways simply not warranted by that truth itselfways that therefore turned finally on the terrorists themselves and deconstructed the deconstructionists.

Her eye deconstructed the mess: an empty scotch bottle stood on top of the counter, and the sink was filled with dishes, including two plates with egg stains.

Now Gerri is sharing her drink and Tommy is deconstructing an ironic slasher film -- or is it merely a lengthy joke?

Having already exhausted the possibilities inherent in deconstructing Vulcan speech patterns in order to extract a nonexistant humorous intent, you have now moved on to the much simpler examination of the form of humor known as slapstick.

He felt he had to prove to his colleagues that he did not need to be sheltered against references to deconstructs and reconstructs, rehabilitation work, and related matters.

She unveiled her new image as we were sitting in front of our Mitsubishi home entertainment totem, eating our last few boxes of Kellogg's Snak-Paks with plastic spoons, deconstructing old Samson and Goliath cartoons, and trying to figure out how/if to wake up my Dad, who was still passed out on Michael's bed.

As I summarized it in chapter 5, the deconstructionists (and extreme relativists) went from saying that no perspective is finally privileged to saying that all perspectives are simply equalat which point this stance turns on itself, undercuts and deconstructs its own claim to validity, and collapses under its own already precariously light weight.

It begins as far back as impressionism, which deconstructs the realistic image of the romantics, and then you get Freud's discovery of the unconscious, he points out that we are not victorian ladies and gentlemen but dark thoughts split behind our eyelids, that we are obsessed with sexuality, with fecal matter -- you know the list.

The mechanism thus created periodically acts out postmodern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself.

It deconstructs itself in some process similar to fission but not fission, producing no heat, leaving nothing.

Here's a bald, aggressive-looking fellow, beetle-browed, wearing what looks like a pair of cut-offs and a top made by deconstructing a space suit.