Tag Archives: Deconstruction

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, TechnoLogics

By Steen | July 17, 2006

A few quotes from Kochar-Lindgren’s excellent book on technologics, cyborgs and the posthuman. The book is challenging, but well-worth the read.

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Dissemination and Contamination

By Steen | October 27, 2005

In this brief chapter I will examine the movement of dissemination - which is the process of grafting - and how we may view this in light of genre; ie what can be termed generic contamination. It should be noted that the process of dissemination is not contingent on the presence of genre and should [...]

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Jacques Derrida, ‘Force and Signification’

By Steen | May 23, 2005

In this essay, Derrida reads Jean Rousset’s Forme et Signification and does it to reveal the folly of structuralist analysis, critiquing the emphasis on form. Often, Derrida is quite forceful in his critique “the structuralist consciousness is a catastrophic consciousness” (4). His harshest criticism at the beginning of his essay is the ahistoricity of structuralism, [...]

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Jacques Derrida, ‘Structure, sign and play’

By Steen | May 19, 2005

A brief piece on Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play“. It is the typical deconstructive move where he sets up what used to be taken for granted and then goes on to show that this, in itself, is ‘always already’ deconstructed. When JD says that the center is both inside and outside the structure, he is [...]

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The Dissemination of Science Fiction

By Steen | November 9, 2004

Borders and Frames
Doctoral course
Tromsø and Sommarøy, 8-13 November 2004
Humanities Faculty, University of Tromsø
This essay is a methodological and theoretical positioning of my research project. I will elaborate on the theories of genre as they pertain to my use of them, specifically dealing with border-crossing generic texts; in this case of the science fiction genre (sf). [...]

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