Steps to Deconstruct the World(Part 1)
- Get comfortable- you’re planning to overthrow every preconceived idea. Start by closing the door.
- Find something to deconstruct. Anything text can be deconstructed: poems, shopping list, podcast, this essay.
- Get deconstructing. Think about why these texts are regarded this way, why is this the common belief. How ‘true’ is this assessment? Whose interest might it suit? For Derrida, there is no true assessment of a text. And the idea that one assessment is dominant can tell us more about the conditions around the text than the text itself.
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