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Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262365260
An accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a clear and concise introduction to a topic often considered difficult and abstruse: deconstruction. David Gunkel sorts out the concept, terminology, and practices of deconstruction, not to defend academic orthodoxy, or to disseminate the thought of Jacques Derrida—the fabricator of the neologism and progenitor of the concept—but to provide readers with a powerful conceptual tool for the twenty-first century. Gunkel explains that deconstruction is not simply the opposite of construction—the “deconstructed” jacket hanging in your closet is not, strictly speaking, accurately named—or synonymous with destruction. It is a way to think beyond the construction/destruction dichotomy and all other conceptual dichotomies and logical oppositions. After describing what deconstruction is not, and developing an abstract and schematic characterization derived from Derrida, Gunkel offers examples in (rather than of) deconstruction, including logocentrism (the speech/writing dichotomy) and virtuality (the ruling philosophical binary of real/appearance), remix (the original/copy distinction), and the posthuman figure of the cyborg (the human/machine conceptual pairing). Finally, Gunkel discusses the costs and benefits of deconstruction, considering the many things deconstruction is good for and identifying potential problems, including Eurocentrism, relativism, difficulties in communicating the concept, and reappropriation.
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Deconstruction
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13637.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262365260
Book: Robot Rights
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 November 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11444.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262348560
Book: Robot Rights
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 November 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11444.003.0022
EISBN: 9780262348560
Book: Robot Rights
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 November 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11444.003.0023
EISBN: 9780262348560
Book: Robot Rights
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 November 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11444.003.0024
EISBN: 9780262348560
Book: Robot Rights
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 November 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11444.003.0025
EISBN: 9780262348560
Book: Robot Rights
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 November 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11444.003.0026
EISBN: 9780262348560