What is "deconstructionist"

Usage examples of "deconstructionist".

There is no careful series of deconstructionist moves in the narrative of the woman doctor, but she nonetheless undercuts the cherished ideals of male friendship, beats the seducer at his own game, and shows the most cogent, aggressive, and pragmatic thinking in a story that is otherwise male dominated.

Boyers earlier concedes the centrality of deconstructionist thought even while he laments it.

His deconstructionist accounts of science began with his experience as a post-doctoral anthropologist, when he spent a year as a partially participant observer in a Californian laboratory working on the identification and isolation of a neurohormone.

But it soon became obvious that the end result of deconstructionist literary critique was always the same: the text blows up.

So we do the Academic Adagio, the Deconstructionist Dip, the Theosophical Thrash, to rationalize why we love or hate or enjoy or find disappointing some book or movie or comic or tv show.

Baudelaire, Poe, Dream-Shakespeare, Hollywood, panto, fairy tale: Carter wears her influences openly, for she is their deconstructionist, their saboteur.

Women in modest skirts or slightly unflattering pantsuits, like Jesse Simons, the Deconstructionist, who argued that doping the water supply was embracing the nomadic sign system of Albertine, which of course represented not some empirical astrophysical event, but, rather, a symbolic reaction to the crisis of instability caused by American Imperialism.

For a good example of this deconstructionist method that demonstrates its virtues and its limitations, see the work of Gayatri Spivak, in particular her introduction to Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Spivak, eds.

Islamists carrying a suitcase nuke but in the process accidentally obliterates the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and a puppet who looks a lot like the late French deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida.

This subversion is true not only of Marxist theory explicitly engaged in polemics against literary autonomy, but also of deconstructionist theory, even at its most hermetic and abstract.

Kundera, the strategies by which Soviet discourse imposes its centralization and uniformity on Czech history are those that structuralist and deconstructionist discourses impose upon chosen texts.

IOU principle in mathematics caused an uproar verging on panic, so the deconstructionists were the terrorists of the linguistic world, sending panic echoing down the halls of establishment academia.

From this, the deconstructionists proceeded to the doctrine that language is the most insidious tool of all.

Moreover, the Deconstructionists are playing the Ritz, one of the modeling agencies is sponsoring a bash for Muscular Dystrophy at Magique and Natalie has cornered a chunk of the Gross National Product of Bolivia.

I also swam in my pool, read books about French deconstructionists, and slept peacefully each night with no dreams that I cared to remember.