deconstructionist
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Foreman directed that premiere, working with Wooster Group ensemble members, including Kate Valk, who is now co-directing this deconstructionist revival with Wooster Group leader Elizabeth LeCompte.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024
It was a technique popularized by the French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, who argued that certain words contain their own negation, which he signified by crossing them out.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
Letter to Jane is simply a deconstructionist essay/harangue, narrated by Godard and Gorin, critiquing the photo of Fonda, and also US leftism and Hollywood stardom.
From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2019
Much of the film’s propulsive, deconstructionist spirit is a result of how “You Were Never Really Here” was made.
From Washington Times • Apr. 5, 2018
In reaction to claims that literacy carried through time, a general deconstructionist attitude challenges the permanency of philosophical tractate, of scientific systems, of mathematics, political discourse and, probably more than anything else, of literature.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
