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    [Noun]  | "de*con*struc*tion" | \ ˌdē-kən-ˈstrək-shən \


    1: a philosophical or critical method which asserts that meanings, metaphysical constructs, and hierarchical oppositions (as between key terms in a philosophical or literary work) are always rendered unstable by their dependence on ultimately arbitrary signifiers; also : an instance of the use of this method

    2: the analytic examination of something (such as a theory) often in order to reveal its inadequacy


    Origin: 1973 ;

     French déconstruction, from dé- de- + construction;

    [Noun]  | "deconstructions" 


    1: the separation and identification of the parts of a whole;


      * e.g., " ... a lengthy deconstruction of the president's speech by a panel of pundits "



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    [Noun]  | "deconstruction" 


    1: the separation and identification of the parts of a whole;


      * e.g., " ... a lengthy deconstruction of the president's speech by a panel of pundits "



    •  Antonyms : 

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     [ "deconstructing" ]

    1: Reevaluating your faith and what you were taught to believe. It is very often abandoning fundamentalism. For some it is moving to a different form of the same faith, often a more logical,empathetic,progressive one, for others it is losing faith entirely. It is quite often people seeing the cruelty in the evangelical church and choosing to follow the love that Christ commanded instead of their evangelical churches.

      * e.g.,  ... James: you’re a Baptist right? You believe in the discrimination&anti-science that they’ve taught in their churches? 

     [ "Deconstruction" ]

    1: Band formed after the first fall-apart of Jane's Addiction. Dave Navarro and Eric Avery formed it. Stephen Perkins was interested but instead, he joined Perry Farrell's project, Porno For Pyros. They had one album: Deconstruction. They had one video: L.A. Song. They had no tour. A one time project that turned out surprisingly well. Dave and Eric's band name comes from their rebelling from Jane's Addiction.

      * e.g.,  ... the song "Iris" by Deconstruction is a great song. 

     [ "Deconstruct" ]

    1: To skool someone in the absurdity of a notion or belief by demonstrating the obvious primitive motivation that underlies it. First coined by French philosopher Derrida as a means of expressing the inadequacy of any fixed ideas which are in constant risk of obscurity because of an ignorance of contextualization.

      * e.g.,  ... I deconstruct your choice of beer to intimacy issues, which originate from being sexually violated as a child by your nazi grandmother. You can deconstruct Obama's reluctance for conflict with the conservatives to a sadomasochistic impulse to seek constant approval from dominant caucasian norms. 

     [ "Deconstruction" ]

    1: A central premise of deconstruction is that all of Western literature and philosophy implicitly relies on a metaphysics of presence,1213 where intrinsic meaning is accessible by virtue of pure presence.1415 Deconstruction denies the possibility of a pure presence and thus of essential or intrinsic and stable meaning — and thus a relinquishment of the notions of absolute truth, unmediated access to "reality" and consequently of conceptual hierarchy. "From the moment that there is meaning there are nothing but signs. We think only in signs."Language, considered as a system of signs, as Ferdinand de Saussure says,24 is nothing but differences. Words have meaning only because of contrast-effects with other words. 'Red' means what it does only by contrast with 'blue', 'green', etc. 'Being' also means nothing except by contrast, not only with 'beings' but with 'Nature', 'God', 'Humanity', and indeed every other word in the language. No word can acquire meaning in the way in which philosophers from Aristotle to Bertrand Russell have hoped it might—by being the unmediated expression of something non-linguistic (e.g., an emotion, a sense-datum, a physical object, an idea, a Platonic Form).25 Derrida terms logocentrism the philosophical commitment to pure, unmediated, presence as a source of self-sufficient meaning.

      * e.g.,  ... No true definition can be derived, so this space is wasted trying to explain deconstruction. 

     [ "Deconstructing" ]

    1: Easy... Unless (of course) the thing you are deconstructing is infinite. In which case, it is infinitely difficult and it takes literally forever.

      * e.g.,  ... Iam "This guy is unreal! 'tricking the audience'!? Like how I talked about the the "Attack on titan" writers tricking people into rooting for Hitler!?" Hym "Hahahaha!!! This guy is hilarious! Listen to this guy! Aaaahahahaha!" Iam "Stop laughing! Why is this so funny to you?" Hym "WHY HAVE WE NEVER LISTENED TO THESE INTERVIEWS BEFORE!? HAHAHA HE'S PRETENDING TO BE US! WE'RE THE IDEAL! THESE PEOPLE ARE AT THE HIGHEST ECHELON OF SOCIETY AND THEY ARE PRETEND TO BE US!!! HAAAHAHAHAAAA!!!" Iam "He admits that he isn't even interested in the thing he's writing about. This is clearly an insult..." Hym "HE'S RUNNING AROUND IN HOCKEY PADS PRETENDING TO BE BATMAN!" Iam "Who's character are you deconstructing? Because that's not the Joker" 

     [ "Christian deconstruction" ]

    1: The process by which a conservative evangelical Christian becomes a liberal homosexual Christian.

      * e.g.,  ... "I heard that nice boy Dave from bible club underwent Christian deconstruction" 

     [ "deconstructed eggnog" ]

    1: The method of whale bukkake being served at a holiday bash.

      * e.g.,  ... Damn this deconstructed eggnog is the bomb. 

     [ "deconstructed dinner" ]

    1: When you’re so tired, you can’t cook, and just eat all the ingredients by themselves, one after the other. Cause it makes it sound fancy, and if you can’t be happy, you can at least be funny.

      * e.g.,  ... X: I had a four-course deconstructed dinner yesterday. 

     [ "Coerced Deconstruction Olympics" ]

    1: The weaponization of radical critique within anti-racist or activist circles, where people are coerced into performative deconstruction under threat of social or ideological exile.

      * e.g.,  ... “Bro showed up to the protest and next thing you know he’s crying during the Coerced Deconstruction Olympics because he didn’t use the right pronouns and forgot to say he benefits from colonialism.” 

     [ "deconstructed club music" ]

    1: Modern variation of electro-house that incorporates sounds of crashing glass , gunshot samples and an explosive sound palette . Often paired with pop acapellas and a pretentious pseudo-{political} message to give its meaningless blatancy a deeper dimension

      * e.g.,  ... "Bro I went to Berghain - Säule the other day the played some pretty dank deconstructed club music" 

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