deconstructionist
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Foreman directed that premiere, working with Wooster Group ensemble members, including Kate Valk, who is now co-directing this deconstructionist revival with Wooster Group leader Elizabeth LeCompte.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024
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."
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2023
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.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
But the multitudes of Steinems aren’t just a deconstructionist trick.
From Washington Times • Sep. 28, 2020
In reaction to claims that literacy carried through time, a general deconstructionist attitude challenges the permanency of philosophical tractate, of scientific systems, of mathematics, political discourse and, probably more than anything else, of literature.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
