Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Logocentrism
22 Oct 2016
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James der deriam rbj walker, cynthia weber, david campbell. What does post-structuralist ir analyze: computers (material): cyberwarfare, satellites, drones, response to failures of western leftist failures & socialist failures. Deconstruction = language is used to constructed signs (represents: signs = signified & signifier, e. g. (picture of horse) = horse. Discourse = language & ideas in material reality. Logocentrism = systemic study o find truth. No one theory possible: shapes (limits) what & how we can discuss, science (sense & study explain all reality, )r analysis = chosen )r theory(cid:495)s focus, balance of power (idea): army navy - nukes. The thing or fact, e. g. (cid:498)nigmendra(cid:499) under ussr: dichotomies: constructions of superior/inferior. Dismiss or belittle others: knowledge, ideas, etc. Not non-europeans: meta-narratives: universal, transhistorical (cid:494)stories(cid:495) = problematic, 1. What events/people were marginalized or suppressed? (why?) capitalism, the state, individual etc. Eurocentrism: anti-semitism = truth of euro & n am = not euros, not.
