According to Daum, the
deconstructivist architect Peter Eisenman decided in the 1980s that the threat of nuclear war meant there was no point to building anything rational.
A rather
deconstructivist view of subjectivity comes through in the documentary, as seen when one interviewee remarks on camera that deciding to get married requires a leap of faith just like the decision to accept a religion.
A flagship example of
deconstructivist architecture, the imposing building was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind and officially opened in July 2002.
Holbraad, Pedersen and Viveiros de Castro note three dimensions of the relationship between ontology and politics: the positivist "how things are" dimension, the critical
deconstructivist and anti-essentialist "how things should be" dimension, and the performative position of "how things could be" dimension that acknowledges a multiplicity of forms of existence.
(7) In the first strand, with antecedents that go back to the modern Masters of suspicion (Machiavelli, Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche), we find authors like Weber, Elias, Adorno, Althusser, Foucault, and Bourdieu in the materialist, structuralist,
deconstructivist, and critical tradition who consider ethics an epiphenomenon--and sometimes even a mask--of deeper lying interests and power struggles.
The "less than many" disclaimer is meant precisely to avoid the infinite regress scholars would surely encounter if they were left only with the "more than one" mandate; without the disclaimer, after counting from one to two, there would be an infinite horizon; scholars would not know where to end; and, at that point, researchers would become de facto members of the
deconstructivist camp.
After that experience, he said,"I ultimately realised that my heart and soul were really more with tradition than
deconstructivist modernism." But lessons from school still inform his approach to designing any house, traditional or modern."It's about the clarity of an idea, and the rigor of how you carry that through and execute it," he said."Good design is good design, whatever style it's in."
Put differently, they had to ask whether and how their radically reductivist and
deconstructivist works could parry the transformative impact of the process of reception itself--the very moment when their works' own radicality became style, when subversive deconstruction became design, when critical performative gesture became mere theatrical stunt.
It should not surprise us, then, that Woolf has survived when those of us who favor deconstruction, formalism, history, ideological critique, and/or continental philosophy find justification for our methods in the writings of Woolf herself--who seems to have become, among other things, a
deconstructivist, a political theorist, a historicist, and a philosopher over the last several decades.
Applying
deconstructivist architectural styles and modern swimming pool features, the collection embodies a refreshing summery feeling.
If we are to imagine a "critical area studies" in geography that aims to join critical theory and the area studies tradition, this will require moving beyond the simple
deconstructivist impulse to point out that regions are socially constructed to ask how regions are constructed.
In the following, I will draw from some arguments provided by decolonial and
deconstructivist scholars such as Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2007, 2012, 2014), Judith Butler (2010) and Gayatri Spivak (1994) in order to elaborate on the linkages between epistemic injustice, the denial of agency and aspirations (as pointed out by the Centre for Political Beauty), and denial of recognition of lives as grievable (as lamented by #JesuisNigeria).