"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 human world--not earth, that's different. Post structuralism, 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, global structuralism appears more organized, safer, more comfortable than that unpredictable harbinger of freedom, post structuralism. Well, of course, academia fears the end of their world. Dare I say it, it's human nature to fear change. Those who fear the creative freedom that post structuralism affords appear to participate in an endless debate about the philosophical set of both structuralism and post structuralism, which they place under the over-arching umbrella of post-modernism. Although, post modernism has recently dissolved into the past, it is an easy classification under which they can place their cogs in the ex-machina system that includes humans as worker bees in a future world of their making.
Change will never be 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 through educational materials, such as professional journals.
Those who wish for wily post structuralism's death have labeled it Marxist, socialist, communist. Don't believe them. Someone wants you afraid of human thought unshackled from the old systems. The thought-controllers in Switzerland
want you uninformed and confused.
A good run was made to stop post structuralism's forward movement on the internet. I was told directly, in a Tweet, that the ideas and theories perpetuated by Post-structuralism represented an intolerable hyper-individualism. Individualism is not a dirty word. It's up to each member of the literary world to decide where this ends.
*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?” (Kant 1970:54).
--An Answer to the Question: “What Is Post structuralism?” 3/21/2007
by Bernard E. Harcourt
--e. smith sleigh, blogger and poet