November 2007

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I was a little bit shocked by the post-structuralism. What is it talking about? There’s no self? Yes, I am constructing myself when I was writing this post. I want myself doesn’t sound stupid, I don’t want anyone knows that I haven’t read Jeff’s reading for this week. 🙂 But that is me, isn’t it?…

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from: http://www.strategy-business.com/li/leadingideas/li00051  What companies need, therefore, is a new approach to demand creation that actually enables — make that forces — a company to be what it says it is. To borrow the phrase architect Jon Jerde made famous, that discipline is placemaking. Places are what provide the primary means for companies to demonstrate exactly…

Read more Ripe for a Post Sructural Field Day

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Deconstruct Jeff’s post to find the most useful interpretation for our classroom sized lifeworld to discover the intentions of the tissue of quotations composed by an author who does not exist. Poststructuralist Strategies Critique commonsense unities (“self”). There is no self. Self is created/constructed. Always in the process of becoming something better via self-creation and…

Read more Lecture Liveblog: 11-20-07

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Certain aspects of a post-structuralist perspective are very cohesive and useful for analysis.  But how can post-structuralism prematurely claim we cannot discover truth about the world without stating this as its discovered truth?  Perhaps this might be perceived as a play on words, but doesn’t every theory attempting to explain the world indulge itself in some proclamation of…

Read more Post-Structuralist Contradiction or Complementation