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Thomassen, Lasse. "Poststructuralism and Representation." Political Studies Review 15, no. 4 (October 20, 2017): 539–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478929917712932.

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This article maps debates within poststructuralism, particularly poststructuralist political theory. I argue that the category, or question, of representation can make sense of theoretical and political debates within poststructuralism in general and poststructuralist political theory in particular. Poststructuralists criticise all forms of presence, whether the presence of the subject, identities or structures. Following poststructuralism, representation can no longer be seen as the reflection of a presence. However, while poststructuralists agree on the turn away from presence, they disagree where to turn and, specifically, on the role and nature of representation. They disagree whether representation is constitutive, and they disagree about how to relate to the hierarchy and violence which, they all agree, is a part of representation. The question of representation may not explain all divisions among poststructuralists, but the question of representation divides poststructuralism in so many ways that it makes sense to analyse the differences among them through the lens of representation. I first look at two issues central to poststructuralism: critique and how to relate to ‘the other’. In the second half of the article, I turn to look at three debates within poststructuralism: immanence versus transcendence, abundance versus lack, and autonomy versus hegemony.

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Sharma, Manish. "Beowulfand Poststructuralist Theory." Literature Compass 6, no. 1 (January 2009): 56–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00585.x.

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Dedic, Nikola. "Film and skepticism Cavell’s „correction“ of poststructuralist philosophy of arts." Filozofija i drustvo 26, no. 1 (2015): 205–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid1501205d.

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The main aim of this paper is the critique of poststructuralist theory of art, and particularly thesis about the avant-garde peace of art as a kind of transgression. As a starting point of this critique, the ordinary language philosophy developed by American philosopher Stanley Cavell is used, particularly his film theory. While poststructuralist philosophy was developed around the notion of ideology, Cavell interprets film and arts in general around the notion of skepticism. While poststructuralism, because of thesis about avant-garde as a kind of transgression within the field of ideology, is a kind of philosophy of negation, we point out that Cavell?s philosophy is a utopian theory of transcending of skepticism where avant-garde film has significant but not crucial place. Cavell?s thesis is used as a basis for re-thinking of modernism, which is in opposition to postmodernist turn realized by poststructuralism.

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Moi, Toril. "“I Am Not a Feminist, But…”: How Feminism Became the F-Word." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 5 (October 2006): 1735–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1735.

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If PMIA invites us to reflect on the state of feminist theory today, it must be because there is a problem. Is feminist theory thought to be in trouble because feminism is languishing? Or because there is a problem with theory? Or—as it seems to me—both? Theory is a word usually used about work done in the poststructuralist tradition. (Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault are “theory” Simone de Beauvoir and Ludwig Wittgenstein are not.) The poststructuralist paradigm is now exhausted. We are living through an era of “crisis,” as Thomas Kuhn would call it, an era in which the old is dying and the new has not yet been born (74–75). The fundamental assumptions of feminist theory in its various current guises (queer theory, postcolonial feminist theory, transnational feminist theory, psychoanalytic feminist theory, and so on) are still informed by some version of poststructuralism. No wonder, then, that so much feminist work today produces only tediously predictable lines of argument.

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SAJED, ALINA. "The post always rings twice? The Algerian War, poststructuralism and the postcolonial in IR theory." Review of International Studies 38, no. 1 (January 27, 2011): 141–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210510001567.

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AbstractThis article makes the case for rethinking the relation between poststructuralism and postcolonialism, by building on the claims advanced by Robert Young, Azzedine Haddour and Pal Ahluwalia that the history of deconstruction coincides with the collapse of the French colonial system in Algeria, and with the violent anti-colonial struggle that ensued. I choose to examine narratives of theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Cixous because not only they provide the link between colonial violence, the poststructuralist project that ensued, and postcolonialism, but also because the problems I identify with their projects are replicated by much poststructuralist work in International Relations (IR). I signal that one of the most significant consequences of conducting poststructuralist research without attention to postcolonial horizons lies in the idealisation of the marginalised, the oppressed or the native without attending to the complexity of her position, voice or agency. Bringing these theories together aims to highlight the need for a dialogue, within IR, between poststructuralism's desire to disrupt the disciplinarity of the field, and postcolonialism's potential to transcend the self-referential frame of IR by introducing perspectives, (hi)stories, and voices from elsewhere.

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Kondo, Dorinne. "Poststructuralist Theory as Political Necessity." Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1-2 (January 1995): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/amer.21.1-2.848r7734n9649512.

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CULLIS, A. "Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory." Journal of Design History 2, no. 4 (January 1, 1989): 313–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/2.4.313.

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Culler, Jonathan. "Poststructuralist Turn?" Diacritics 47, no. 4 (2019): 28–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2019.0033.

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Winders, James A., Perry Anderson, and Frank Lentricchia. "Poststructuralist Theory, Praxis, and the Intellectual." Contemporary Literature 27, no. 1 (1986): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208599.

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Ensslin, Astrid. "Reconstructing the deconstructed - hypertext and literary education." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 13, no. 4 (November 2004): 307–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947004046283.

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In this article I endeavour to connect two major achievements of postmodernism which, at first glance, may appear incompatible: deconstruction in literature and literary criticism on the one hand and constructivism in educational theory and practice on the other. Subverting traditional literary values such as authorial integrity and power, linearity and logic of plot, consistency of character, the distance between the reader and printed text as well as, above all, the death of the author, poststructuralism has long been recognized as a rather embattled concept. This is due to its evasiveness and hence relative inapplicability to literary criticism and pedagogy. Venturing to overcome this dilemma, the article will investigate the implications of educational constructivism. The chief aim is to link some of its concepts with postmodern literature in such a way as to facilitate didactic methodology in the field of poststructuralist literature. Literary hypertext- the so-called incarnation of postmodern literary theory - will be used as a stereotypical example of poststructuralist evasiveness. The article proposes that literary hypertext has considerable educational potential. Not only does the genre invite subjectcentred pedagogy, which allows students to learn according to their own interests and prior knowledge, but, paradoxically, it also defies the unviability of poststructuralist literature by resurrecting the dead author in collectiveness. The proposal will be illustrated by a case study report, describing the implementation of literary hypertext in an undergraduate German creative writing classroom.

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Murphy, Helen, and Pauline Rafferty. "Is there nothing outside the tags?" Journal of Documentation 71, no. 3 (May 11, 2015): 477–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-02-2013-0026.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore relationships between social tagging and key poststructuralist principles; to devise and construct an analytical framework through which key poststructuralist principles are converted into workable research questions and applied to analyse Librarything tags, and to assess the validity of performing such an analysis. The research hypothesis is that tagging represents an imperfect analogy for the poststructuralist project. Design/methodology/approach – Tags from LibraryThing and from a library OPAC were compared and constrasted with Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and publishers’ descriptions. Research questions derived from poststructuralism, asked whether tags destabilise meaning, whether and how far the death of the author is expressed in tags, and whether tags deconstruct LCSH. Findings – Tags can temporarily destabilise meaning by obfuscating the structure of a word. Meaning is destabilised, perhaps only momentarily, and then it is recreated; it might resemble the original meaning, or it may not, however any attempt to make tags useful or functional necessarily imposes some form of structure. The analysis indicates that in tagging, the author, if not dead, is ignored. Authoritative interpretations are not pervasively mimicked in the tags. In relation to LCSH, tagging decentres the dominant view, but neither exposes nor judges it. Nor does tagging achieve the final stage of the deconstructive process, showing the dominant view to be a constructed reality. Originality/value – This is one of very few studies to have attempted a critical theoretical approach to social tagging. It offers a novel methodological approach to undertaking analysis based on poststructuralist theory.

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Gavey, Nicola. "Feminist Poststructuralism and Discourse Analysis: Contributions to Feminist Psychology." Psychology of Women Quarterly 13, no. 4 (December 1989): 459–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1989.tb01014.x.

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In this article I suggest that feminist poststructuralism (Weedon, 1987) is of great potential value to feminist psychologists seeking more satisfactory ways of theorizing gender and subjectivity. Some key elements of this theoretical perspective are discussed, including an understanding of knowledge as socially produced and inherently unstable, an emphasis on the importance of language and discourse, and a decentering of the subject. Discourse analysis is discussed as one way of working that is consistent with feminist poststructuralist theory. To illustrate this approach, an example is presented from my work on the sexual coercion of women within heterosexual relationships.

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Carter, Phillip M. "Poststructuralist Theory and Sociolinguistics: Mapping the Linguistic Turn in Social Theory." Language and Linguistics Compass 7, no. 11 (November 2013): 580–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12051.

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Beck Matuštík, Martin. "Existential Social Theory After the Poststructuralist and Communication Turns." Human Studies 25, no. 2 (June 2002): 147–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1015500509943.

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Laws, Cath, and Bronwyn Davies. "Poststructuralist theory in practice: Working with ''behaviourally disturbed'' children." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 13, no. 3 (May 2000): 205–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518390050019631.

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Taekke, Jesper. "Digital Panopticism and organizational power." Surveillance & Society 8, no. 4 (April 28, 2011): 441–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v8i4.4181.

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With the focus on organizations, this article describes power in relation to mediated surveillance using Luhmann’s systems theory, poststructuralist theory and theory of media sociography. It aims to sketch out the main issues in contemporary surveillance discourse and illustrate the current situation, as well as discuss surveillance from the perspective of poststructuralist theory in relation to Luhmann’s concepts of trust, risk and especially power. The underlying media sociographical question is which storing-, retrieving-, localisation- and temporal possibilities for communication and surveillance do digital media provide and how the realization of this potential feeds back into organizations’ power structures.

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Harris, Wendell V. "Late-marxist, post-poststructuralist critical nebulosity." Philosophy and Literature 19, no. 1 (1995): 127–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.1995.0043.

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Bonnett, A. "Situationism, Geography, and Poststructuralism." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 7, no. 2 (June 1989): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d070131.

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After an introduction to situationism and the theory of the spectacle, the movement's intellectual roots in postwar French Marxism are summarised. The situationist theory of social subversion and a contemporary example of the practice are then introduced. Situationism's critique of human geography and the development of similar perspectives within geography and other disciplines are assessed. It is suggested that situationism immobilises political judgment and that this tendency is paralleled within the poststructuralist philosophies of Derrida, Lyotard, and Baudrillard.

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Hardy, Joy. "Narrative Theory Versus Truth: A Poststructuralist Reading in Environmental Education." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review 6, no. 8 (2012): 167–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v06i08/52135.

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Usher, Robin. "Locating Experience in Language: Towards a Poststructuralist Theory of Experience." Adult Education Quarterly 40, no. 1 (September 1989): 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/074171368904000103.

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Experience, although a key concept in adult learning, tends to be conceptualized within the framework of humanistic psychology and thus to be seen as asocial and subjective. This article argues that the relationship between meaning and experience should not be grounded in subjectivity. The insoluble problems of such a grounding are illustrated by the deconstructive analysis of a text (Jarvis, 1987) centered on a humanistic approach to meaning and experience. An alternative theorization is presented that stresses the constitutive role of language in experience. This shows how the meaning of experience is located in the play of language and the power of discourse. Experience, therefore, potentially has no single, fixed, and invariant meaning. Seeing experience in this way allows for a reconceptualization of adult learning which more readily takes account of the neglected social dimension.

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Sekulic, Nada. "Identity, sex and 'women's writing' in French poststructural feminism." Sociologija 52, no. 3 (2010): 237–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc1003237s.

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The paper discusses political implications of the feminist revision of psychoanalysis in the works of major representatives of 1970s French poststructuralism, and their current significance. The influence and modifications of Lacan's interpretation of imaginary structure of the Ego and linguistic structure of the unconscious on explanations of the relations between gender and identity developed by Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and H?l?ne Cixous are examined. French poststructuralist feminism, developing in the 1970s, was the second major current in French feminism of the times, different from and in a way opposed to Simone de Beauvoir's approach. While de Beauvoir explores 'women's condition' determined by social and historical circumstances, French feminists of poststructuralist persuasion engage with problems of unconscious psychological structuring of feminine identity, women's psychosexuality, theoretical implications of gendered visions of reality, especially in philosophy, semiology and psychology, as well as opening up new discursive possibilities of women's and feminine self-expression through 'women's writing'. Political implications of their approach have remained controversial to this day. These authors have been criticized for dislocating women's activism into the sphere of language and theory, as well as for reasserting the concept of women's nature. Debates over whether we need the concept of women's nature - and if yes, what kind - and over the relation between theory and political activism, have resulted in the split between the so-called 'essentialist' and 'anti-essentialist' approaches in feminist theory, and the subsequent division into American (non-essentialist) and French (partly labeled as essentialist) strands. The division is an oversimplification and overlooks concrete historical circumstances that produced the divergence between 'materialist' and 'linguistic' currents in France.

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Goodfield, Eric. "Postmodern Paper Tiger." Cultural Politics 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 233–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8233420.

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For most contemporary theorists, the death of postmodern thought as a theoretical impulse and critical divide has become a given. Yet, since the end of the 1990s a variety of important strands of social and political thought—queer theory, feminism, and postcolonialism to name but a few—have taken up and advanced poststructuralist emphases on language and discourse that are derivative of postmodern theory. In this context, the article considers two of the most central and original postmodern thinkers, Jean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard, to illustrate the political entanglements of postmodern and liberal thought. Through this investigation the article illuminates the way these authors’ works on the political potencies of language raise important questions for the relevancy of poststructuralist political thought for contemporary critical thinking in the context of the global expanse of neoliberal capital. The article initiates an original dialogue between two poststructuralist authors and raises this to a second engagement with current debates over the crises of critical thought and, by extension, carries contemporary relevance as well.

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Zaric, Aleksandar. "ISTORIJSKI KONTEKSTI BIOMOĆI U SLIKARSTVU FRENSISA BEJKONA I U TEORIJI POSTSTRUKTURALISTA." Lipar, no. 71 (2020): 11–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/lipar71.011z.

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The art of Francis Bacon is positioned as a London school of figurative painiting of the second half of the twentieth century, and as such it is the most direct reflection of the post-war traumas of the Nazi regime that befall Europe and the world. It was exactly at the time, at the intersection of social, economic, scientific and technological and cultural practices, that a Western neoliberal order was formed. It is a sample or archeological/historical layer also studied by post-structuralists Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari. This text is an attempt of explication of certain links in the opinion that connect the painting of Francis Bacon and the theory of post-structuralism, which are focused on the issues of development of biopower within certain historical sites. Namely, post-structuralists realise that archeological layers are volatile historical categories, and each of them is an independent social and cultural creation. Bacon authentically connects these historical layers through his visual language, referring to older painters such as Velasquez, Rembrandt, Ingres or Van Gogh. Thus Bacon re-examines the status of the subject (conceptualises life by the powers of death using human body) and its liberties both in liberal and in neoliberal societies

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de la Campa, Roman. "Mainstreaming Poststructuralist and Feminist Thought: Jonathan Culler's Poetics." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 18, no. 2 (1985): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1315183.

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Higgins, John. "“In Short, Poststructuralist Freudianism”: Reading through as Misreading." Journal of Literary Studies 7, no. 1 (March 1991): 76–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564719108529970.

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Machacek, Gregory. "Allusion." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 122, no. 2 (March 2007): 522–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2007.122.2.522.

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The study of allusion has been beset by limiting assumptions, conceptual murkiness, and terminological imprecision; moreover, many poststructuralist theorists regard such study as having been superseded by newer conceptions of intertextuality. This essay seeks to clarify the nature of allusion and the terminology by which it is analyzed and to place it on a firmer footing within poststructuralist literary criticism. I distinguish two forms of allusion often conflated-learned reference and phraseological adaptation–and elucidate the elements of a phraseological adaptation. I distinguish diachronic allusion from synchronic intertextuality, as poststructuralist theorists insist should be done, but then suggest how coordinating the two can enrich the analytic power of each way of conceiving textual interrelation.

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Koschorke, Albrecht, Michael Thomas, and Sasha Rossman. "Facts Shifting to the Left: From Postmodernism to the Postfactual Age." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 134, no. 5 (October 2019): 1150–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.5.1150.

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How postmodern is populism? Is there a hidden legacy of the 1968 manifestos in today's right-wing protest culture? In recent years, questions like these have often been posed in a more or less polemical manner. They should be reconsidered in a more sober, nuanced way. In academia, they are of far more than merely historical interest since unlike the hairstyles, clothing fashions, body culture, and living spaces from the late 1960s, many of the theories from that period are still regarded as contemporary. Above all, this applies to poststructuralism as a collective name for the impulses of what is often called French theory, which have set the tone in the humanities for two generations. However, the problem with the continuing topicality of poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking is that many of their elements are becoming virulent under completely changed political circumstances.

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Ffrench, Patrick, and Joan Brandt. "Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory." Modern Language Review 93, no. 3 (July 1998): 847. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3736571.

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Sprinker, Michael, Peter Dews, and Gregory Elliott. "Logics of Disintegration: Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory." MLN 103, no. 5 (December 1988): 1151. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2905207.

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Wolfreys, Julian, and Joan Brandt. "Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory." SubStance 30, no. 3 (2001): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685768.

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Lazreg, Marnia. "Poststructuralist theory and women in the Middle East: going in circles?" Contemporary Arab Affairs 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 74–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2012.757884.

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This article examines the effects of the uncritical use of the poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical approach on studies of Middle Eastern women and gender. Focusing on the twin concepts of ‘empowerment’ and ‘resistance’ as they have been applied to account for the re-veiling trend among Muslim countries and communities, it explores the epistemic transformation of the explanation of this trend into its justification. It further provides an example of a historicized application of Michel Foucault's conception of power.

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Nabers, Dirk. "Discursive Dislocation: Toward a Poststructuralist Theory of Crisis in Global Politics." New Political Science 41, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 263–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2019.1596684.

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Wolfreys, Julian. "Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory." SubStance 30, no. 3 (2001): 136–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sub.2001.0036.

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Bell, Desmond. "Logics of disintegration: Poststructuralist thought and the claims of critical theory." History of European Ideas 14, no. 3 (May 1992): 433–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(92)90221-w.

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Wojczewski, Thorsten. "‘Enemies of the people’: Populism and the politics of (in)security." European Journal of International Security 5, no. 1 (October 29, 2019): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eis.2019.23.

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AbstractPopulists are on the rise across the globe and claim to speak on behalf of ‘the people’ that are set against the establishment in the name of popular sovereignty. This article examines how populist discourses represent ‘the people’ as a referent object that is threatened and the form and implications of this populist securitisation process. Drawing on securitisation theory and poststructuralism, the article understands populist securitisation as a discursive practice that propagates a politics of fear, urgency, and exceptionality in order to mobilise ‘the people’ against a ‘dangerous’ elite and normalise this antagonistic divide of the social space. While the proposed theoretical framework aims to clarify the relationship between poststructuralist and securitisation theory and capture the nexus between populism and security, the case of populism broadens the scope of potential subjects of security and poses important challenges to existing theoretical assumptions about security as something designated by states’ representatives and ‘security experts’. The article develops and illustrates its arguments with a case study on the (de)securitisation moves in the populist discourse of Donald Trump.

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Mattissek, A., and T. Wiertz. "Materialität und Macht im Spiegel der Assemblage-Theorie: Erkundungen am Beispiel der Waldpolitik in Thailand." Geographica Helvetica 69, no. 3 (October 8, 2014): 157–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-69-157-2014.

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Abstract. Nature and technology are at the core of many ongoing social transformations and political struggles. While constructivist approaches in general and poststructuralist theories in particular point to the discursive negotiation of materiality, they have so far failed to adequately account for its constitutive role in stabilizing and destabilizing social relations. We argue that theories based on a "flat ontology" offer a way to re-materialize social theory while keeping the sensitivity to power-knowledge relations that poststructuralist theories have developed. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and recent discussions on Assemblage Theory in Human Geography, we sketch out a theoretical framework that conceptualizes the relations between symbolic and material entities in a non-deterministic way. Using the example of recent shifts in forest politics in Thailand under the influence of climate change policies, we discuss some of the empirical aspects that can be analyzed with the help of Assemblage Theory.

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Hurh, Paul. "“The Creative and the Resolvent”." Nineteenth-Century Literature 66, no. 4 (March 1, 2012): 466–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2012.66.4.466.

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Beginning with the influential readings by Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, poststructuralist fascination with Edgar Allan Poe's detective tales has treated them as fables of analytical method and exposed them as posing an insoluble challenge to totalizing frameworks of interpretive analysis. These studies overlook an excised paragraph from Poe's first detective tale in which Poe displays the debt his model of analysis owes to historical sources. This essay discovers the origins of Poe's model of analysis by recovering its discursive context and argues that the poststructuralist conclusions are anticipated in part by Poe's deliberate attempts to translate that model into narrative. This model, inherited from scientific debates in Renaissance history, defines analysis as comprised of two reciprocal processes—the process of resolution and the process of composition. The first part of this essay addresses the original first paragraph of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) and the definition of analysis that its restoration enables. The discoveries there lead to a reading of “The Man of the Crowd” (1841) as a failed first attempt to translate the dynamic processes of resolution and composition into a narrative system. By recovering a first paragraph that the poststructuralist criticism misses, this study finds “The Man of the Crowd” central to Poe's strategies of narrative deferral and yields an important pre-history of the deconstructive critical aporia that is their legacy.

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Coombes, Leigh, and Mandy Morgan. "Narrative form and the morality of psychology's gendering stories." Narrative Inquiry 14, no. 2 (December 31, 2004): 303–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.14.2.07coo.

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In this article we read particular fragments of poststructuralist theory to constitute a narrative epistemological position that enables us to question the morality of psychology's narratives of gendered subjectivities. Drawing on the work of Lyotard (1984) and White (1987) we theorise narrative form as complicit with moral order and the morality of subject positioning. We then question the positioning of a particular woman through a narrative telling of her psychology. The specific narrative is the judge's summation in a murder trial where the case is defended through a plea of insanity. The accused woman's psychology is told through reference to trial evidence: the expert testimony of psychologists and psychiatrists. We read fragments from the judge's summation and from expert testimony to exemplify the moral order of the positioning they enable and constrain. Finally, we discuss the implications of our reading for interventions into the social power relations of legitimate psychological knowledges. (Feminism, Poststructuralism, Narrative, Morality, Insanity, Mental Disorder)

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Scott, Joan W. "Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism." Feminist Studies 14, no. 1 (1988): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3177997.

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Flatscher, Matthias, and Sergej Seitz. "Latour, foucault, and post-truth : the role and function of critique in the era of the truth crisis." Soft Power 6, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 130–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/softpower.2019.6.2.8.

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This paper, first published in German in Le Foucaldien 4(1) 2018 and in English in Le Foucaldien 6(1) 2020, explores Bruno Latour’s critique of contemporary critical theory. According to Latour, poststructuralist conceptions of critical inquiry are becoming increasingly outdated. In our “post-factual” era, attempting to expose facts as results of power-laden processes of social construction plays into the hands of anti-scientific obscurantists. This is not to say, however, that one ought to opt for some reductionist notion of objectivity. Instead, Latour proposes a new form of critical realism. While we agree with Latour about the necessity of widening our epistemological paradigm, we deem his critique of poststructuralism unfair and exaggerated. Moreover, we argue that he fails to account for the relationship between epistemology, power, and subjectivity. Since Foucault, on the other hand, succeeds where Latour falls short and probes into this very relationship, his is a form of critique that remains crucial to tackling the current crisis of truth.

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Friedman, Susan Stanford. "Post/Poststructuralist Feminist Criticism: The Politics of Recuperation and Negotiation." New Literary History 22, no. 2 (1991): 465. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469049.

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Epstein, Charlotte. "Constructivism or the eternal return of universals in International Relations. Why returning to language is vital to prolonging the owl’s flight." European Journal of International Relations 19, no. 3 (September 2013): 499–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066113494669.

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In this contribution I engage with the question of the end of theory from a poststructuralist perspective. I begin by revisiting the making of International Relations as a discrete theoretical endeavour from Waltz (1979) to Wendt (1999), around, respectively, the efforts to unearth the structures of international politics that carved out the international as a distinct site of political analysis, and the appraisal of these structures as social structures (Wendt, 1999). I then revisit the origins of poststructuralism via the works of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, in order to bring its founding moves to bear directly on International Relations constructivism. Engaging with constructivism’s founding fathers, Nicholas Onuf, Alexander Wendt and Friedrich Kratochwil, I show that the search for unconstructed universals, grounded in an innate ‘human nature’, persistently haunts International Relations constructivism, even when it foregrounds language as the medium of social construction, and notably when it engages the question of gender. Just as language provided the original site for orchestrating the ‘moving beyond’ (the ‘post’ of poststructuralism) fixed, naturalized structures, I argue that a return to language holds the promise of renewal, and of constructivism’s being able to fulfil its founding promise to theorize constitutivity and the constructed-ness of International Relations’ world.

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Holmes, Dave, and Marilou Gagnon. "Power, discourse, and resistance: Poststructuralist influences in nursing." Nursing Philosophy 19, no. 1 (November 15, 2017): e12200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nup.12200.

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Schutte, Ofelia. "Cultural Alterity: Cross-Cultural Communication and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts." Hypatia 13, no. 2 (1998): 53–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1998.tb01225.x.

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How to communicate with “the other” who is culturally different from oneself is one of the greatest challenges facing North-South relations. This paper builds on existential-phenomenological and poststructuralist concepts of alterity and difference to strengthen the position of Latina and other subaltern speakers in North-South dialogue. It defends a postcolonial approach to feminist theory as a basis for negotiating culturally differentiated feminist positions in this age of accelerated globalization, migration, and displacement.

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Carluccio, Dana. "The Cognitive Fictions and Functions of Gender in Evolutionary Psychology and Poststructuralist Theory." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 2 (January 2013): 431–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/667196.

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Watson. "Living with Madness: Experimental Asylums in Poststructuralist France." Cultural Critique 104 (2019): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/culturalcritique.104.2019.0137.

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Mlechko, Aleksandr, Ivan Shamaev, Olga Didenko, and Olesja Kozlova. "Public Sphere, Virtualization, Rhizome: Communicative Practices of Runet Social Media." Logos et Praxis, no. 4 (February 2019): 18–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2018.4.3.

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In the present work, the interrelation of social media with the philosophical thought of poststructuralism is investigated. The nature of the manifestation of this connection, the reasons for its actualization, the main one being the crisis of confidence in traditional media, is largely related to poststructuralist world outlook and attitude. Particular attention is paid to the structure of social media, the emphasis is on their nonlinearity. The image of the rhizome, described by J. Deleuze and F. Guattari, helps to reveal the peculiarities of the text functioning within the social media space and the formation of an interpretative-commentary complex around it.The latter is capable of changing the initial intentions in many ways, and here correlation with the poststructuralist idea of the "death of the author" is traced. Semantic dominants of this non-linear system are associated both with public expectations and with the activities of certain political actors and business structures. As a result, the interpretative-commentary complex acquires the features of a poly-subject, affecting the subject-object dichotomy, which underlies the classical models of communication. The relationship of social media with the philosophical thought of poststructuralism is also studied in the context of the public sphereideas. Modern interactive media are distinguished by the interpenetration of collective social and individual personal beginnings: the topics that the public and certain social groups consider most relevant are revealed here. In addition, a large number of interpretations are allowed. At the same time, the discussion is mainly limited to the presentation of certain views without establishing common ground, so we cannot yet talk about the space of the classical public sphere. Separately, the issue of increasing image symbols within the communicative space of social media is raised, it is considered in the context of the theory of simulacra by J. Baudrillard. Social media simultaneously acts as a product of the virtual environment, and as a reaction to it, where network activity correlates with other types of activity. In the present work, a conclusion about the complex nature of relationship between social media and modern philosophical thought is made. A systematic study of constructs that have an impact on the communicative practices of social media provides the most objective ideas about this phenomenon.

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Staley, Jeffrey L., and Stephen D. Moore. "Mark and Luke in Poststructuralist Perspectives: Jesus Begins to Write." Journal of Biblical Literature 114, no. 1 (1995): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3266612.

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Fernández Jiménez, Mónica. "Defying Absolutes and Essentialism in Derek Walcott’s Omeros: An Epic of Traces." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 62 (January 25, 2021): 29–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20205150.

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Using poststructuralist and postmodern theory, this article analyses the postcolonial epic poem Omeros (1990) by the author Derek Walcott. In using such a genre, Derek Walcott opens up a discussion on the literary canon and the role of epics. The authority of canonical genres is established through the use of some of the epic’s formal conventions in order to be subsequently questioned through the subversion of some others relating to register and perspective. In this way, Walcott establishes a poststructuralist approach to identity which is perceived as fluid, heterogeneous, and subject to transformations. The intertextuality and parody at work in the text bring to light postmodern concerns about history and the past, which are presented as non-absolute traces. In the end, the epic recovery of roots becomes in this poem an invocation of anti-essentialism.

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Negrin, Llewellyn. "Cosmetics and the female body: a critical appraisal of poststructuralist theories of masquerade." European Journal of Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 83–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/a010864.

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Recently, there has emerged a new paradigm, informed by poststructuralist theory, for the appraisal of cosmetics. According to this approach, earlier critiques of cosmetics have been based on a mistaken premise that there exists a 'true' self independent of the masks one assumes when, in fact, the self is constituted by these very masks. Thus, in contrast to previous critics who proposed a return to the 'natural' body, these recent theorists advocate a cosmetics which openly declares its artificial nature. However, as will be argued in this paper, in their concern to dismantle 'essentialist' notions of the self, poststructuralist theorists have unwittingly fallen into the embrace of the cosmetics industry with their promotion of the notion of the self as masquerade. In our postmodern culture where the cult of appearances has become ubiquitous, the advocacy of a hedonistic experimentation with various guises is complicitous with contemporary capitalist consumer ideology.

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