To attach the word post to a previous body of theory is to relate whatever the main concept was to what it is has changed into or what it means now. The example we used in class described it pretty good. There was 9/11 and after 9/11 a post 9/11 was created. Using post 9/11 to show how terrorism affects us after 9/11 relates our ideas that we had prior to 9/11.
Post-structuralism protests against structuralism in a sense that instead of everything describing everything in a structure through contrastd, post-structuralism opposes it. So the meaning of words is binary, the word is described as what it isn't rather than what it is in post-structuralism. I find this a little confusing because I think words can have more than one opposite with a different meaning.
Structuralism has similar concepts to post-structuralism mainly in a sense that everything still falls into this large structure that constructs language. They both incorporate the idea of the sign and the idea of no essential value. This helps us understand deconstruction using the idea that it's decentering. The is no center, it's a variation in language that fluxuates.
It seems like decontruction is the break down of structuralism, it's a way to look at language in opposition of structuralism.
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I think post-structuralism still uses opposing words but find that that process contaninates that actual meaning of the word...therefore there is not essential meaning and there is not center.
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