Post-structuralism encourages a fragmentation of philosophy, celebrates uncertainty, discontinuity, and the ambiguous. It refutes absolute power from any central authority. Post structuralism acknowledges that language systems cannot be trusted to convey truth and an uncentered constructed universe is a better universe. It articulates open systems and their relationship between dissimilar discourses. It defines itself as a decisive and irreducible element in all thought, language, and life. No finality or conclusion exits in the post-structuralists’ world. Elements of the Post-structuralist theory began in France, in the late 1960s, engendered primarily by the work of Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and Deleuze.
Poststructuralism sees literature as irreducibly plural, an endless play of signifiers which can never be finally nailed down to a single center, essence, or meaning.
This school of thought represents a positive attempt, in my opinion, at a liberated and universal approach to artistic expression. It is far from being a negative within the contemporary literary climate. If you embrace its principles, you acknowledge that it is the definition of several past and current movements. My work actually embraced post-structuralist principles before I understood it as a movement. In this blog, I am declaring myself a post-structuralist poet. I urge others to seek out the post-structuralism tenet and join me.
From the Purdue University Online Writing Lab--
Here is a list of scholars we encourage you to explore to further your understanding of this theory:
Theorists
* Immanuel Kant - "An Answer to
the Question: What is Enlightenment?", 1784 (as a baseline to understand what
Nietzsche was resisting)
* Friedrich Nietzsche - “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-moral Sense," 1873; The Gay Science, 1882;
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, A Book for All and None, 1885
* Jacques Derrida - "Structure Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences," 1966; Of
Grammatology, 1967; "Signature Even Context," 1972
* Roland Barthes - "The Death of the Author," 1967
*Deleuze and Guattari - "Rhizome," 1976
* Jean-François Lyotard - The Postmodern Condition, 1979
* Michele Foucault - The Foucault Reader, 1984
* Stephen Toulmin - Cosmopolis, 1990
* Martin Heidegger - Basic Writings, 1993
*Paul Cilliers - Complexity and Postmodernity, 1998·
* Ihab Hassan - The Dismemberment of Orpheus, 1998; From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The
Local/Global Context, 2001
Literature
*William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch, 1959
*Angela Carter - Burning Your Boats, stories
from 1962-1993 (first published as a collection in 1995)
*Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School, 1978
*Paul Auster - City of Glass (volume one of the
New York City Trilogy), 1985 (as a graphic novel published by Neon Lit,
a division of Avon Books, 1994)
*Lynne Tillman - Haunted Houses, 1987
*David Wojnarowicz - The Waterfront Journals, 1996
--e. smith sleigh, author and poet
Books:
. THESE THINGS ARE A ONE THING
. OUR NATURE EXTERNAL LANDSCAPES
. THIS NATURE: INTERNAL LANDSCAPES
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