ARTH 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bruno Latour, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida
19 Dec 2016
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The issue with using semiotics, is you can never get a de nitive answer. In the 60s, our understanding of structuralism changed. Jacques derrida and deconstruction meaning is not situated in one place, terms are de ned through negation and relations. The meaning of meaning is in nite implication, the inde nite referral of signi er to signi er . Meaning, there is no certainty in the world. What happens when we reverse terms (man/woman/culture/nature) or undermine hierarchy? deconstruction has to be acted out, you"re in process all the time. That is one of the key ideas of post structuralism. It is related to post-modernism, by destabilizing things we show how society isn"t a monolithic thing. We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single theological meaning, the message of the author-god, but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash .
