'There are many good things to be grown in the autumn of the patriarch,
many good things to be found in the ruins,
in the collapse of the older explanatory systems,
in the splintering of the masterly overview
and the totalizing aspiration.' (Hiding 225)
--CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE NEW HISTORICISM by Patrick Brantlinger
The post structural world is under attack, but there is no post structural world. It is not a world. It is not separate from the current conditions within the confines of what is known as humanity aka, for most of us, the world--not earth, that's different.
Post struct uralism, as I've written before, means the end of a formally structured way of looking at and doing things. Has academia even made an attempt at changing antiquated systems? For the most part, no. Some academics and others are hell bent on putting the post structural genie back in the bottle: "It must be stopped dead." They lean on the strength of Patrice Maniglier's 'The Structuralist Legacy' which attempts to demonstrate that structuralism did not die in the 1970s.
To those who wish *post structuralism gone, world structuralism appears more organized, safer, more comfortable than that unpredictable harbinger of freedom, post structuralism. Well, of course, academia fears the end of the world as they knew it. Dare I say it, it's human nature to fear change. Rather, they appear to participate in an endless debate about the philosophical set of both structuralism and post structuralism.
Change hasn't been approved by main stream stick-in-the-muds who are dictated to (and they listen to the trickery) by a surreptitious global educational institute in Switzerland. These seriously professional propagandists distribute their blither worldwide. Those who wish the wily post struc turalism's death have labeled it Marxism, communist. Don't believe them. Someone wants you afraid of human thought unshackled from the old systems.
*Post structuralism is, in this sense, a penultimate stage in the emancipation from
that “self-incurred immaturity” that Kant famously identified—in his essay, “What is
Enlightenment?”—as “the inability to use one’s own understanding
without the guidance of another” (Kant 1970:54).
--An Answer to the Question: “What Is Post structuralism?” 3/21/2007
by Bernard E. Harcourt
--e. smith sleigh, post structural blogger and poet
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