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deconstructionist

adjective as in exposing a text's multiple meanings

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He won't stop being who he always was, meaning an actor who takes on crowd-pleasing projects and a guy who calls himself an "anarchist, Marxist, ethical hedonist, nondiscriminatory empath, epistemological deconstructionist Texan."

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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.

Gubbiotti’s show at Civilian Art Projects’ current pop-up location demonstrates both his construction skills and his deconstructionist approach.

The renowned philosopher Martin Heidegger was a Nazi Party member and Paul de Man, a deconstructionist literary theorist, wrote for pro-Nazi publications.

Van Hove’s hot-cool, deconstructionist, revisionist aesthetic – with its screens, its mythos, its spare, moody sets, as well as its emphasis on physical and psychological violence – is by now familiar to Broadway.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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