#poststructuralism

[brideofquietness]

"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire." — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse

[inkliinng]

It’s been a while since I’ve made notes.

[thetendertongue]

rhizomatic thinking — from Deleuze and Guattari: a way of thinking that spreads like roots in soil; horizontal, branching, interconnected, without a single center or clear beginning; like a rhizome, resists hierarchy and linearity; maps multiplicity; how ideas grow underground, sprouting in many directions at once; mycelium; kinship webs; contrasts arborescent thinking

[materialpony]

The Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous

[fanboy-feminist]

The worst part about poststructuralism is that it actually does make life a richer and more coherent experience and everything begins to Make Sense.

[ofb1t]

𝕸𝖆𝖉𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘, 𝖒𝖞 𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖈𝖑𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖞

Ø𝖋𝖇1𝖙

[1000rh]

The intersection of environment and technology does make a difference, often a huge difference, and to some degree, cultural difference really is just an arbitrary roll of the dice: there’s no ‘explanation’ for why Chinese is a tonal language and Finnish an agglutinative one; that’s just the way things happened to turn out. Still, if one treats the arbitrariness of linguistic difference as the foundation of all social theory – which is basically what structuralism did, and post-structuralism continues to do – the result is just as mechanically deterministic as the most extreme form of environmental determination. ‘Language speaks us.’ We are doomed to endlessly enact patterns of behaviour not of our own creation; not of anyone’s creation really, until some seismic shift in the cultural equivalent of tectonic plates lands us somehow in a new, equally inexplicable arrangement.

– David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything (2021)

[gcballet]

Mischief Movie Night In: The Tur-Key To Christmas Joy (2024) AND Lacanian Subjectivity as explained by Catherine Belsey (2002)

Dumbest thing I've ever made, easily. Literary theory shitposting.