It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.” — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes.… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
“And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we create… — Jeffrey Fischer Copy Share Image
You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“In the life of many churches, the habits of anti-intellectualism are planted early. Children are encouraged to open themselves up to the… — Jon Ward Copy Share Image
“Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“We all are bound to those around us by glue, and to our pasts, and sometimes we need to dissolve it... They… — Amanda Green Copy Share Image
“To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“she does with much asperity: "Dear Ms X, I acknowledge your letter concerning your proposed thesis, though I can't say its title… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
“I guess that’s supposed to be deconstruction’s original program, right? People have been under some sort of metaphysical anesthesia, so you dismantle… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image