/lit/ - Literature

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Derrida used similar analytical aesthetics in that when you look at the analytical tools that he invented, they were clearly based on things that Marx came up with, the influence of materialism on Derrida's works for example are quite easy to see.

A quotidian philosophy because Marx became an everyday philosophy in the hands of many when Marxism had largely run its course to help structure their lives.
Derrida for example often quotes Marx, but not to strengthen his argument but to make us understand what he meant.
Derrida was radical in his approach to deconstruction because he argued that there was for example imperialist meaning behind the use of signifiers, signifiers being the idea of linguistic theories in which signifiers are used to describe something, and the signified is the actual described.
For example tits are the signifier for this girl's tits, the signified are then this girl's actual tits.
We understand that I mean tits to describe this girl's tits because everything else is not, it's none of its binary oppositions, which could be her ass.

The cut in context is then the fact that signifiers don't actually talk about the signified, but describe other signifiers, while the system of binary oppositions is constantly broken down as well.

To Derrida, rejecting structuralism by believing that signifiers talk about other signifiers, and that binary oppositions are frequently broken down was then similar to how Marx tried to break down the system of economists who were separated from the materialism of capital, that's to say, their dialectical relations with its surroundings.

For example this girl's tits look like a pretty juicy pair of anime titties, but when we see them in isolation, they become a pretty incidental thing that is only abstractly understood.
To grasp something we must understand the dialectical relations it has with its surroundings, for example the fact that nipples become become erect when cold, to breastfeed, the sweatglands in the areola to help breastfeed, etc.

Now if you ever tell me I'm just mangling language to sound smart I will never post 2D jezebels again.