/lit/ - Literature

>>4669926
>There's absolutely zero reason to write in the style he employed
It's actually quite funny, Foucault agrees with you. In the latter part of his life he bemoaned the fact that within contemporary France at the time to be taken seriously one had to write in a very particular style. His lectures at the College de France are a lot clearer.

Do what everyone else does and blame Derrida.

>>4027505
>implying "definitions"

>Deconstructionism
>Intellectual terrorism
>Promotion of utter stupidity and uselessness in academia

This man is responsible for all those things!

What a stupid fucken prick.

"Language is subjective, give me money! Focus on semantics when doing literary criticism, give me money!"

What a fucken fraud. So many people faun over him like the gullible sheep they are, but I'm a critical thinker and I can smell his shit from miles away.

He's so fucken useless. Of course language is based on subjective principles, but that's not the point. When you spend all your time questioning things with no goal, only to "attack the structures and make them bleed", you're an intellectual terrorist who is not interested in advancing art, thinking, or anything useful.

I can anticipate you faggots response to this
>Define progress
>Define everything

Fuck off morons. There are doers, and there are good for nothing con men who trick people into giving them money through mysticism and gimmicks.

Derrida is a fraud, and he has fooled many of you. Some of you are probably stupid enough to defend him.

Go ahead, make me laugh.

I see a lot of binary, either-or thinking in this thread. Of course the whole "problem" is simply a rhetorical game based upon centuries of Western philosophical rhetoric.

>>3327204

>if I use a word with multiple meanings I can decide which one I imply

Can you explain free play to me like I'm a 8 year old?

Describe deconstructionism in one world

>making sense

At a lecture about English literature education a few days ago, the speaker (an Oxford poetry professor) accused Derrida and deconstructivists (alongside the treatment of creative writing as an academic study) of damaging it by reducing everything to 'texts'. Is there any truth to this? Is Derrida worth reading, or is it all academia ladder-climbing tosh as he said?

>calling anything but a book, article or legal document, either printed or digital, "text"

Yeah no faggots, pictures aren't text, sculpture isn't text, text is something you can read through the medium of the alphabet in a linear fashion. Discuss.

pic related, one of the semiotician "text" people

>people thinking that understanding is something that can be achieved
Seriously, guys, we've been through this how many times?

"truth" is a word

bitches don't know about my French Jews

>>2313526
>everybody knows what a chair is, and everybody knows what a turtle is, and they are not often confused for one another.
I find these false dichotomies of chairs and turtles disturbing.

Do you even read, OP?

this is a very bad thread

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Questions?

>>950108
>Implying no Différance

Hai gaiz. Do you think I'm nonsensical?

I may never be a newfag.

Hey /lit/ can you explain the concept of Derrida's Trace to me? I've been reading this shit for days and it still doesn't make any sense.

Oh shit, I'm late for my thread.

Carry on then.

>>416232
>Kierkegaard was differant
>differant

Indeed.