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Originally posted by jusunlee
yes youre correct, i never advocated for poststructuralism, but because it seemed so, i will defend myself as a poststructuralist.
im sure you know this already, but let me sum it up for reference sake, also so that you know why i saw the story in the other thread as an example of poststructuralism, and that i know we have the same definition of it (poststructuralism as you may already know is loosly defined, so different definitions are entirely plausible). poststructuralism is a postmodern outlook, celebrating fragmentation, discontinuity, and incoherence of ideas. in the postmodern world, absolute truths cease to exists, only replicas that are understood by its relationship with its surroundings. for example, for one to define "light", "dark" must first be identified. hence, because of the deconstruction of meaning, in the postmodern world there is no rational way to evaluate judgments - of truth, morality, or objectivity - but through the illusion of fabricated binary opposition of the words. this idea, poststructuralism, suggests that language in itself has no meaning - the meaning derived only comes from the experience that one may refer to.
that said, even speech itself would be didatical. for example, a simple "here i am" is structural, because definition to those individual words are assumed. hence, because the medium we use to communicate and set forth its ideas, language itself, is the groundwork of structuralism, poststructuralism is inherently self-contradictory.
now, going back to your interpretation of nietzsche's statement, "it makes stupid", yes, it may very well be true. its an outcome of the limitation set forth by language, and for you to advocate for what you did would put to at the same light (therefore making you contradict yourself). to sum up, in a poststructuralist world, no one is ever correct, not you, not i.
all right, my only point was that you were advocating poststructuralism and seemingly contradicted yourself by saying something is not cool by what you thought...but, now that you've made it clear that you don't advocate poststructuralism, i agree with everything you said. No contradiciton, no argument 
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Last edited by PsychoSnowman on 05-01-2003 at 02:35 AM
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04-29-2003 06:30 AM
. for real.
