How to Deconstruct almost anything

[Cain]

This is the story of one computer professional's explorations in the world of postmodern literary criticism. I'm a working software engineer, not a student nor an academic nor a person with any real background in the humanities. Consequently, I've approached the whole subject with a somewhat different frame of mind than perhaps people in the field are accustomed to. Being a vulgar engineer I'm allowed to break a lot of the rules that people in the humanities usually have to play by, since nobody expects an engineer to be literate. Ha. Anyway, here is my tale.

http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html

[LMNO]

Brilliant.

The SSOOKN needs to branch out into Lit Crit.

[Cain]

I think I should do that.  Lit Crit of this sort pisses me off no end, as does most Postmodernism.  Probably because I encountered it daily before moving to the more "hard" subsections of my discipline.  In A Short History of Modern Delusions, Francis Wheen does an excellent job of showing up most of the fraudsters in this trade.

[Bhode_Sativa]

The Academic System could use some refinement.  I've been thinking about school myself, and came across http://www.goddard.edu/   It looked like the kind of education I would enjoy.

[Mangrove]

Brilliant.

The SSOOKN needs to branch out into Lit Crit.

i'll leave that up to you. the irritation of lit crit was a big part of me quitting university.

[Cain]

The Discordian "Barstool Experiment" is a signifier of a male dominated value system on this site who advocates violence actions to repress those narratives which do not agree with their strict materialist interpretation of "reality", in rejection of a more feminine understanding of metaphysics that arises from a fluid dynamic understanding of relations between objects in-themselves.

[LMNO]

You totally missed the phallic imagery of the "solid, hard" barstool and the "void" of the quantum-based universe.

[Cain]

I thought anyone above a five year old would have drawn that parallel.   :-P

[LMNO]

Five-year-old? 


We're talking about deconstructionists, here.

[Mangrove]

Cain/LMNO

Thank you for further justifying my decision to quit my English Lit degree after 6 months.

[Cain]

Five-year-old? 


We're talking about deconstructionists, here.

Alright, three....

[Lies]

LOL I love this quote.

The essential paradigm of cyberspace is creating partially situated identities out of actual or potential social reality in terms of canonical forms of human contact, thus renormalizing the phenomenology of narrative space and requiring the naturalization of the intersubjective cognitive strategy, and thereby resolving the dialectics of metaphorical thoughts, each problematic to the other, collectively redefining and reifying the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor.

[Cain]

And to think that there are single words out there which convey more meaning than that there sentence.

[P3nT4gR4m]

And to think that there are punctuation marks out there which convey more meaning than that there sentence.

teh Fixx

[LHX]

LOL I love this quote.

The essential paradigm of cyberspace is creating partially situated identities out of actual or potential social reality in terms of canonical forms of human contact, thus renormalizing the phenomenology of narrative space and requiring the naturalization of the intersubjective cognitive strategy, and thereby resolving the dialectics of metaphorical thoughts, each problematic to the other, collectively redefining and reifying the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor.

lmfao

thats a symptom of something