Treat every text with suspicion
- Derrida thought there was no true assessment of a text. The dominant assessment tells us about the conditions around the text rather than the text itself.
- To think like Derrida means looking at a text, finding what it is trying to promote, then looking in the opposite direction.
- Look for contradictions and consider what they mean.
- A more subtle way of looking at a text is to see what happens if you look at one text through another interpretation. (What role does race play in the Marvel movies?)
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