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“Jacques Derrida … in 1967 … introduced … [the] concept ‘deconstruction<\/a>‘. … Derrida rejects the commonplace idea<\/a> that words<\/a> refer straightforwardly to things in the real world. Instead, he insists that words<\/a> refer only to other words … ‘There is nothing (read: no meaning) outside of text’. …<\/p>\n The author’s intentions are irrelevant, … due to Derrida’s adaptation of Roland Barthes’ concept of ‘the death of the author’. Consequently, since discourses are believed to create and maintain oppression<\/a>, they have to be carefully monitored and deconstructed. …<\/p>\n The most common postmodernist response to this …, [is] to read ‘deconstructively’ by looking for internal inconsistencies … in which a text contradicts and undermines itself. …<\/p>\n In practice, deconstructive approaches to language therefore look very much like nitpicking at words in order to deliberately miss the point.”<\/p>\n aus: Helen Pluckrose \/ James Lindsay: Cynical theories, Durham, NC: Pitchstone 2020, S.40-41.<\/p>\n