/lit/ - Literature

It's sorta like when ya take a text (novel (this is rare), cultural concept/idea (this is most common: examples could be the concept of 'compassion' or feminist ideology)) and do a structuralist analysis. Then, ya realize there are some areas that sorta contradict or are sorta opposed. This is a potential 'aporia'. If this strange structuralist dynamic is an aporia, it's gotta lead to a useful emendation to the text (used in broad sense as above, this is a structuralist conceit lol) and this may be rare and is way Derrida is coy about deconstruction being a 'method' or tool set, considering the methodology is pretty dang inexact.

If it is an aporia, you may be, like Judith Butler or Homi K. Bhabha, on the cusp of a new field of cultural study. Former woman developed gender studies from feminism by pointing out that their gender identity archetypes were often comprimised by sexuality. Her gender theory models gender identity more exactly as a consequence. Homi K Bhabha changed post-colonialist thought by pointing that traditional Marxist power dynamics did not always occur between colonialist and subaltern, particularly in cases where the subaltern's culture grew to dominate. Hence, hybridization was formed as a cultural and literary phenomenon.

The only example I can come up with for when deconstruction was used in a distinctly literary context was De Man's analysis of Proust (among other things) in the dynamic between metaphor and metonym (vaguelly Jacobsian thingies, if that means much). Here, he showed that both weren't necessarily discrete in literary language. Hope this helps.

Trying to get interviews so that I can write a novel. The subject is the sex industry, and I'm having a really fucking hard time getting hookers to talk. How do you interview people /lit/?

Reading through "Sperm Wars" right now. It's pretty interesting how we have almost no control over some of our sexual actions.