After hours of reading summaries of what Deconstruction means I still had no clue of the concept... but you explained it very well! Thanks!!!

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Interesting video and great attempt at explaining deconstruction. With that said (and I'm assuming you may get a lot of these types of responses, so I apologize ahead of time), but I have to say, as a reader of Derrida's works, I have issues with a lot of what you're saying about deconstruction in this video. Deconstruction is not about pointing out the failure of trying to communicate using language, as if Derrida or other deconstructionists are lurking in the background, waiting to say, "Gotcha! You screwed up!" Rather, deconstruction is about moving us away from the thinking that the purpose of language is to communicate meaning. For Derrida, language in itself cannot communicate meaning; rather, interpretation is dependent upon context, and context depends upon a variety of factors, including culture, history, the people participating in the communication, etc. - all things, to a large extent, outside of a communicator's control. But this doesn't mean that using language is useless for Derrida. On the contrary, what's important about language is that due to its structure and quality - i.e. its fluid, evolving rules - we can produce different and newer contexts for interpretation. In other words, language is what allows us to interpret a sentence one way or another. If we use your touchy friend example, what allows a "normal" person to interpret a statement one way and what allows the "touchy" friend to interpret it differently is precisely the same thing - the language involved. Thus, for Derrida, the point of language is not to control meaning (as you said, modify one's language so that we get closer to communicating meaning), but to allow for the possibility of different ways of being interpreted. To reiterate, Derrida and other deconstructionists are NOT saying there is no such thing as meaning. Nowhere in Derrida's work have I ever read this statement or something like it. Rather, what he is saying is that the point of language is not to communicate meaning (since meaning is dependent upon context), but to open itself up to different (possible) interpretations.

Entertaining lecture and explanation. Thanks for that! Let's put deconstruction aside for a minute. Regarding the sign on the lift door, if you think about it it is pure genius to write sg like this. It does not matter if the blind person cannot read the sign as its purpose is to stop those who see to use the elevator with a dog.

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I remember a text by Derrida from the quote "there is only text" is derived. By reading that letter you can figure out that Deconstruction exists in the first place to point out that we are social creatures with a brain that is wired to figure out associations, thus creating context. It is because of our social nature that we are given constructions that become the carriers of meaning. We are limited by our social environment to discover our individual personality, to find out our true essence as human beings. To deconstruct means to question the social structures we are raised in and to use it against itself in order to cause change. It's fun with these examples but really, it's more fun to consume art that relates to these concepts like David Lynch, Agnes Varda, Andy Warhol, Duchamp, surrealism.

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Thank you TIm Nance for the way you explained Decsonstruction. It was entertaining, fun, and helped me tremendously in gaining a greater understanding of this particularly difficult theory. I am going to give a lesson in a few weeks on deconstruction and may use part of your video to motivate the class. Love it. Great work. Thank you!

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Deconstructionist: “All statements are devoid of meaning (except mine here, but please don’t notice that.”)

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