December 2nd, 2010 / 2:21 pm
Craft Notes

Post-Structuralism Explained

“Post-Structuralism is pretty easy, right?”

Right?

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53 Comments

  1. Hennesy Youngman on Post-Structuralism : Mark Sussman

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  2. mjm

      I laughed out loud. Fuck lols, I laughed, like in real life.

  3. Gian

      If you can’t make it, fake it, by over-explaining it.

      #ilikethat

  4. Paul Cunningham

      that was great hahahah

      (sigh) now to finish the long-winded essay on post-structuralism i’ve been writing for months

  5. deadgod

      it’s like, i mean, you know

      uh, uh, um, like

      shit is motherfucking, like, uh, some fucked up, like, shit

      there is no motherfucking thing outside the fucking, uh, place-taking, like, grunt

      see’m sayin?

      —————

      < most intelligible deadgod post ever >

  6. lily hoang

      Brilliant!

  7. Critique_Manque

      “Motherfucker you can’t step outside of history, what the fuck you smokin’ on?”

  8. cmrnfrnk

      i would love for him to do a ‘differance’/derrida video

      but seriously, some quality lols

  9. Matthew Simmons

      deadgod be like, “This guy’s filled pauses indicate difficulties articulating his ideas,” and post-structuralism be like, “No, he’s just using those words to fill gaps so that the power structure that usually controls all dialogue is unable to find some sort of place in the conversation to shoehorn in and take over.”

  10. Hank

      fuck yo fatha, kill yo motha

  11. Tummler

      I have a Zune…

  12. Trey

      I haven’t ever figured out how to use a shoehorn.

  13. Matthew Simmons

      You just put your lips together and blow.

  14. letters journal

      ‘Get your shit right, get your colors right, man.’

  15. Burrow Press

      Phenomenon (adj.) – things; shit.

  16. M Kitchell

      this is amazing

  17. deadgod

      Phenomenon n. Something which ‘appears’.

  18. Guest

      yes yes yes

      things and shit

  19. Guest

      this is so sweet

      goddamn

      gonna link everyone to this

  20. deadgod

      Matthew be like, “Inaccurate details.” I be like, “The rhythm of place-taking has become its own reason for the habit, but that rhythm, to me, is, I mean, like, you know.” And dude’s gap-filling be like, “Don’t contradict my flow so you won’t contradict my theories,” which couldn’t be more like a full-of-shit dad, or more Master Narrative.

      The guy made his “ideas” clear enough: “modernism” is ‘your father telling you how things are’ and “post-structuralism” is ‘you responding that “pops is full of shit”‘.

      But literary “modernism” was persistently skeptical of inherited Master Narratives, and the “post-structuralism” of, for example, Derrida is doubtful that the exertion of “power”, while perhaps discernible, is confidently to be resisted by virtue of that discernment. (That is, in shorter words, ‘just because you (think you) see and denounce oppression, you haven’t overturned or left behind oppressive relationships’.

      Now get off my lawn, you shitty, like, kids.

  21. Kyle Minor

      But the kids be like: “This is our lawn, deadgod.”

      But the kids also be like: “It’s kinda cool when deadgod conjugates colloquially.”

  22. John Minichillo

      So that’s where Ali G’s been. Respec!

  23. mj

      I wonder if deadgod gets what he is doing. Not with his explanation of post-structuralism per se, but the overall arc of his way of speaking. He is using one manner of speech to not alienate those who might normally be off put, not because of their failure’d ability to understand, but because of the social structure built to keep “them” out, and also the inherent need to retain a superiority type over another demographic. And Young Hen man, he is well aware that using those makers of uh, um, you know, etc put people often times more at ease because it is viewed as either one is working over their thoughts or one is slightly vulnerable or one’s hesitation doesn’t bring up the alarms of debate. Kid is dope.

  24. jesusangelgarcia
  25. Matthew Simmons

      Yeah, this is totally my lawn, deadgod. My jarts are right over there.

      Seriously, though, you wanna maybe play some jarts?

  26. deadgod

      The kids be like, “Every lawn we’re led to is ‘ours’.”

      I be like, “Hey, kid mowing the grass with that shoehorn! Do you think post-structuralism dude’s shit is correct?”

  27. Guest

      deadgod

      it’s like satire, or something

      there’s levels

      major layers

      “i’m like che guevara with bling on: i’m complex” – jigga

  28. deadgod

      Where you forget your jarts is “yours”? Ok, let’s play.

      Do you think post-structuralism dude’s shit is correct?

  29. Kyle Minor

      deadgod, you want to talk about serious things. but after 20+ comments, we just want to find our jarts.

  30. deadgod

      agreed, marshall: “satire”

      poly-edged sword-of-bling

      cliche guevara

  31. deadgod

      I’ve got one wedged in the back of my footwear. Where’re those dag-nab “instructions”??

  32. Matthew Simmons

      No, not really. It’s not the worst five-minute introduction I’ve heard, but mostly I like the humor. Modernism kind of gets a raw deal, for sure.

      Nuanced and fair never seem to pal around with short and funny, though.

      Actually, nuanced and fair usually stay off the internet entirely. They seem to prefer to hang at the library. Nerds.

  33. Sean

      I sort of like this. I am in academia and never really understand the terms I hear around me every day Like I feel fake and real when I walk hallways. Does that make sense? So I in some way like this. I’m lost often in the “big” words, especially lit-crit words filling the air, but it’s OK. I’m not an intellectual. It’s OK. Am I talking to myself now? Maybe.

  34. Trey

      I saw this in the recent comments on the side of the page and figured it was about shoehorns. it wasn’t, of course.

  35. Guest
  36. Guest

      everyone pay ur respects to jayson musson

      he’s the dude

  37. Eric Beeny

      “…things and shit, in the world.” Best part…

  38. Christopher Higgs

      Wow, I fucking loved this! I laughed so hard and spasmodically that I scared the cat out of the living room.

  39. mjm

      I wonder if deadgod gets what he is doing. Not with his explanation of post-structuralism per se, but the overall arc of his way of speaking. He is using one manner of speech to not alienate those who might normally be off put, not because of their failure’d ability to understand, but because of the social structure built to keep “them” out, and also the inherent need to retain a superiority type over another demographic. And Young Hen man, he is well aware that using those markers of uh, um, you know, etc put people often times more at ease because it is viewed as either one is working over their thoughts or one is slightly vulnerable or one’s hesitation doesn’t bring up the alarms of debate. Kid is dope.

  40. Hank

      I would buy deadgod a beer.

  41. Hank

      I mean, I’d buy the fellow in the video a beer, too. Beers for everyone, y’all.

  42. deadgod

      It wasn’t? Oh.

      Shee-it.

  43. gavin

      OH NO! It looks like it got yanked for the crying game scene. Fucking grand-narrative bastards over at You Tube slapping around the little man again!

  44. deadgod

      “RELAX SISYPHUS I’M DOING THIS”

      I think you’re right, marshall

      jayson musson is unusually highly respectable

      I now think the post-structuralism video is not “satire” (though putting it here, so I’m-a-homie-too! homies can feel = hippity hop and > elbow-patched Perfessers, looks mighty sarcastic).

      I still think the video’d argument is inaccurate.

      In the theory racket, I still see “conservative” when foax say that things they’ve not demonstrated understanding of are ‘all bullshit’.

      thank you for introducing that link

  45. Blake Butler

      dude relocated to vimeo, post updated.

      youtube = weak

  46. deadgod

      master narrative: wasn’t me

      revolutionary critique: who denied it, supplied it

      post-structuralismasm: [inject indeterminacy]

  47. deadgod

      using one manner of speech to not alienate those who might normally be off put, not because of their failure’d ability to understand, but because of the social structure built to keep “them” out, and also the inherent need to retain a superiority type over another demographic

      the dominant manner of speech is ‘street’

      the subjected manner of speech is ‘academy’

      that is what Hennessy “is doing”

      seeing revolution in this reversal, and not seeing/caring about Hennessy’s erroneous explication (if it is that), is, to me, self-congratulatory naivety

      I will trade my portion of Hank’s donation for vodka, rack the balls for the next break, and buy the next round

  48. mimi

      hey watch it with the library/nerds thing simmons

  49. Matthew Simmons

      I’m quite likely hiding in the stacks right now, mimi.

  50. deadgod

      “see ‘conservative'” = ‘see “red”; become aggravated’

      post-structuralism dude is not one of the foax who say that ‘I don’t understand x‘ = ‘x is bullshit’, but I became rancorous in whiffing – perhaps mistakenly – this equation on this thread

  51. Guest

      the video probably isn’t accurately described as “satire”

      yeah

      the argument might be “inaccurate”

      yeah

      don’t think the “point” of the video is to make an argument

      seems like it’s just supposed to be funny and maybe be a little irreverent towards “academic” shit

      don’t know what that other stuff you said means

  52. deadgod

      “see ‘conservative'” = ‘see “red”; become aggravated’

      post-structuralism dude is not one of the foax who say that ‘I don’t understand x‘ = ‘x is bullshit’, but I became rancorous in whiffing – perhaps mistakenly – this equation on this thread

  53. Baudrillard

      Post-post-structuralism says, “I’m going to take a Black Sheep song, “street” talk and dress, and put it in commercials. The dominant classes can laugh and smirk at the clever destruction of classic hip hop, while the target audience associates the product with street credibility.”

      Post-structuralism says, “Eeck. But all gods are dea-” *dies*