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Saint Ranieri, Meet George Jetson: Deconstruction Illustrated with a Catholic Painting
__________ What is deconstruction? In postmodern theory, deconstruction (in a nutshell) is the undoing of an author’s controlling intentions by time and audience reception. This can only happen because texts are made of parts, not coherent wholes. Over time, parts … Continue reading
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Tagged art, deconstruction, history, imagination, lenny kravitz, literature, philosophy, postmodernism, time
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Bruno Latour’s Question: Are There Things We Shouldn’t Deconstruct?
In his essay, “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern” (2003), historian of science Bruno Latour (b. 1947) worries that the intellectual atmosphere in the humanities—in which many scholars, including him, have … Continue reading
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Tagged critical theory, deconstruction, evolution, global warming, philosophy, postmodernism, progressive politics, responsibility
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Tim Minchin’s “Woody Allen Jesus” Christmas Song
The best new Christmas song of the year (by Tim Minchin): —- Unfortunately, though Tim Minchin’s segment was taped for the Jonathan Ross Show, it didn’t actually air. It was nixed as too controversial. But Minchin, given a copy of … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, christmas music, deconstruction, God, Jesus, muhammad, music, philosophy, religion, the Bible
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N.T. Wright: Reason is important BUT . . .
I’m a rational person, BUT . . . The Christian scholar N.T. Wright is very smart, yet he suggests in the video below that reason, standing alone, is inadequate to arriving at truth. He wants us to consider arriving at … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, critical thinking, deconstruction, God, Jesus, n.t. wright, philosophy, reason, Richard Dawkins, theology
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Jacques Derrida for Beginners
And a critique of phallocentrism: Jacques Derrida: [Differance ] governs nothing, reigns over nothing, and nowhere exercises any authority. It is not announced by any capital letter. Not only is there no kingdom of differance, but differance instigates the subversion of every … Continue reading
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Tagged change, deconstruction, differance, Freud, jacques derrida, life, phallic symbols, postmodernism, the death of the king, the kingdom of god, viagra
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Two Faces—or Curvy Girl Martian?
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Tagged art, deconstruction, figure-ground images, holism, interconnectedness, meditation, perception, philosophy, poetry, psychology, yoga, Zen
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