{"id":48,"date":"2006-02-07T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2006-02-07T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T19:23:00","slug":"deconstructionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/07\/deconstructionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructionism"},"content":{"rendered":"

In The Princess Bride<\/em>, Prince Humperdinck makes a pronouncement regarding the pursuit of Princess Buttercup and Wesley\/Dread Pirate Roberts. “Unless I am wrong,” he says, followed by a parenthetical,”and I am never wrong,” and then something about the the fire swamp.<\/p>\n

I think about that sometimes, when I’m trying to figure something out. I really admire his confidence, but there’s also a slight gesture towards humility. Granted it’s only a nod, a conceit that only makes him more of an arrogant bastard. But it’s a charming gesture.<\/p>\n

My version is different but, oddly, paradoxically, no less arrogant. “Unless I am wrong,” I say, “and I am always wrong,” and then I go on to say what I think something is or means or is going to happen.<\/p>\n

So, unless I am wrong, and I am always wrong, deconstruction is taking a text, noting the underlying questions that the text is purporting to answer, and then determining that the questions themselves are incoherent.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how this is useful though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In The Princess Bride, Prince Humperdinck makes a pronouncement regarding the pursuit of Princess Buttercup and Wesley\/Dread Pirate Roberts. “Unless I am wrong,” he says, followed by a parenthetical,”and I am never wrong,” and then something about the the fire swamp. I think about that sometimes, when I’m trying to figure something out. I really … Continue reading Deconstructionism<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}