#deconstruction

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I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.


Kevin J. Anderson


#communication #deconstruction #direct #extra #i

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.


Berkeley Breathed


#cartooning #deconstruction #down #gotta #joke

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.


Charles Simic


#deconstruction #language #poetry #experience

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings, and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly love this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated?


Christopher Hitchens


#edward-said #literary-criticism #literature #postmodernism #love

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.


Terry Eagleton


#illusory #insists #institutional #truth #truth is

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.


Jonathan Miller


#asking #audience #deconstruction #fashion #gratuitous

humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we create religions, heritage, race, traditions, then they all in turn become our stumbling blocks from becoming one. we suffer from the creations of our own inability to interpret history. the only thing we have succeded on is seperation.we are not that different from one another as we think we are. but we are too corrupted to break our deconstruction.


Jeffrey Fischer


#nihilism #society #religion

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.


Jacques Derrida


#deconstruction #influence #understanding #writing #communication

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.


Harold Bloom


#comes #common #deconstruction #i #i think

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.


Danny Elfman


#deconstruction #everything #exception #first #gotta