COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Post-Structuralism
19 Dec 2016
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The question about how we make meaning changes over time. Culture/thoughts at the time: we want systems! Systems will create new opportunities for individuals: but we"re slightly nervous about implementing systems too . Rules are mandatory to understand something (ex: chess: the pieces don"t mean anything without the rules. You could play chess with checker pieces, jelly beans, animals, etc. The rules of justice are what"s important: no such thing as the author. Don"t create new words or languages, you just rehash themes and such. Authors are helped by editors and publishers, so the idea of an author or. Structuralism: a theory or method in which a discipline or field of study is imagined as comprising elements inter-related as systems and structures at various levels. The interrelationship between those elements are more significant than the individual elements. Post-something means that it comes after, but also that it advances a pervious position.
