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Ads by Google      "The Politics of Deconstruction", by Barbara Foley To begin with, he posits that binary opposition is not merely a linguistic phenomenon, but in fact a strategy necessary to class rule: language is never innocent of the relations of power in which it is enmeshed. And the historical opposition that the revolutionary proletariat negates /128/ is not a metaphysical product of ideological domination but a real opposition: Marx proposes to overturn and transgress the binary opposition wage-labor/capital not because it is a binary opposition, but because it is a binary opposition that prohibits the historical development of human potentiality. Not only binary opposition, then, but also the logocentrism of the "longing for presence," that operates as the logical premise to binary opposition, is exposed in its complicity with existing institutions of power. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~bfoley/politics_of_deconstruction.html      Essay This position is in direct opposition to the rigid binary opposition concept, and allows for almost infinite variations in couples from feminine +feminine, feminine or masculine + androgynous, feminine = masculine etc. Defining the problematic sex/gender as identification and the way the two terms are assumed to be equivalent and a part of the binary opposition model is, according to Kosofsky Sedgwick a space rather than a binary concept. The idea that there was more to life and to gender identity and sexual preference than the black/white, straight/gay, binary opposition was unheard of. http://www.alphalink.com.au/~suevill/Essay.html      Binary opposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The critique of binary oppositions is an important part of post-feminism, post-colonialism, and critical race theory, which argue that the perceived binary dichotomy between man/woman, civilized/savage, and caucasian/non-caucasian have perpetuated and legitimized Western power structures favoring "civilized" white men. Post-structural criticism of binary oppositions is not simply the reversal of the opposition, but its deconstruction, which is described as apolitical—that is, not intrinsically favoring one arm of a binary opposition over the other. In critical theory, a binary opposition is a pair of theoretical opposites, often organized in a hierarchy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_opposition      Irigaray This is what the French Feminists are interested in --Cixoius and Irigaray want to turn the idea of lack into an idea of excess and challenge the binary opposition that is evident in the phallogocentric system of language. This system sets up the simple binary opposition of penis/nothing. The phallomorphic is seen as one, which sets up a binary opposition of phallomorphic/things that are not one. http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/Irigaray.html      Deconstruction Begin again with a new binary opposition until the system of values at work in the novel (or in society) is completely dismantled and play is thoroughly unleashed. BINARY OPPOSITIONS:   Two concepts or terms in opposition to one another, where one is always privileged over the other. Find moments in the text where the binary opposition seems to be firmly in place. http://www.colorado.edu/English/stommel/Fall2004/Deconstruct.htm      Binary Opposition It is important to note however, that the deconstruction of binary oppositions is not a task to endure by the reader or critic, yet the oppositions deconstruct from within the text. For Saussure the binary opposition was the "means by which the units of language have value or meaning; each unit is defined against what it is not" (Burgass 3). The binary opposition is the structuralist idea that acknowledges the human tendency to think in terms of opposition. http://artsweb.uwaterloo.ca/~seainswo/Binary.htm      Original Sin The claim that human freedom was the cause of creating binary opposition as an inherent aspect of creatureliness, as so many commentators have done over this passage, is falsely reasoned for the simple fact that no mortal being can choose freely, or otherwise, between having life and dying. Life/death, for mortal beings, is not a binary opposition because life always ends in death for anyone or anything that has it. The problem with this second binary opposition, of course, is that it really is not one at all. http://www.mayanastro.freeservers.com/genesis.HTM      LiteratureClassics.com -- Essay -- Conrad: a Complicit and Unwitting Correspondent of European Colonisation A binary opposition between the physical and the mind is established and serves to categorise characters. However, by reducing this truth to such a clear-cut binary opposition, the divide between the races is highlighted, and an arbitrary judgement as to who is good and who is evil is sought. The major binary opposition between light and darkness, combined with an exploration of the character Kurtz, while the spearhead of Conrad’s campaign against colonisation, also serves to describe Africans as evil and in need of civilising through colonisation. http://www.literatureclassics.com/showessayprint.asp?IDNo=859      Structuralism For example, the binary opposition life and death is a useful one to explicate "Sleeping Beauty." Here, the deep structure of the story suggests that when the thirteenth fairy declares that Sleeping Beauty is to die at her fifteenth birthday that a life versus death binary opposition is posited. This process may in itself create new binary oppositions in the story which need to be followed until one arrives to a final mediation for the story. Here the life versus death binary opposition is mediated by the twelve fairy's action: death is transformed into one hundred years sleep. http://www.panam.edu/faculty/mglazer/Theory/structuralism.htm      Structuralism e pos strucuturalism Derrida says that such systems are always built of the basic units structuralism analyzes--the binary opposition or pair--and that within these systems one part of that binary pair is always more important than the other, that one term is "marked" as positive and the other as negative. What Derrida does is to look at how a binary opposition--the fundamental unit of the structures or systems we've been looking at, and of the philosophical systems he refers to--functions within a system. The statement insures that there is a God (the thing doing the speaking), and that God is present (because speech=presence); the present God is the origin of all things (because God creates the world by speaking), and what God creates is binary oppositions (starting with light/dark). http://www.geocities.com/charleslang99/structur.htm      beyondthecommons Rather, we explore this discursive operation of binary opposition, presented as a "choice of languages." The practice of what is commonly referred to as "traditional" or "unaccompanied" singing in Ireland is often represented as if singers have before them the "choice" of two radically-distinct and symbolically-disparate linguistic traditions. The binary opposition is clearly established, the two traditions are presented as radically distinct, undoubtedly separate. The dominant ideological strains of cultural nationalism in Ireland during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries posited a binary opposition of Gaelic and English language worlds. http://www.beyondthecommons.com/twotrads.html      Structuralism For example, the binary opposition life and death is a useful one to explicate "Sleeping Beauty." Here, the deep structure of the story suggests that when the thirteenth fairy declares that Sleeping Beauty is to die at her fifteenth birthday that a life versus death binary opposition is posited. This is accomplished by discovering the major binary opposition(s) in the deep structure. In "Sleeping Beauty" or in any myth the deep structure of the narrative is analyzed through the discovery of a binary opposition and the resultant mediation. http://www.panam.edu/faculty/mglazer/Theory/structuralism.htm   (1329 words)      queertheory Her treatment of this binary opposition is similar to the way Derrida destabilizes the binary opposition of absence and presence with the concept of differance. By destabilizing the binary opposition of copy and origin, homosexuality and heterosexuality, with the concept of imitation or mime, Butler establishes all sexual identities as performance, and sexuality as that which cannot be known or named. Using Derrida's notions of copy, original, and imitation, Judith Butler questions the binary opposition of heterosexuality as original, and homosexuality as copy, thus establishing the limitations of both identity categories to capture the varied, fluid, unknowable and ultimately unnameable nature of human sexuality. http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/cpace/gender/raymond/queertheory.html   (1329 words)      Binary Opposition Page Binary opposition is so deeply rooted in thinking patterns that we cannot even escape it. Below is a binary opposition table which lists sample constructs and their associated positive or negative image. The concept of binary opposition is in use almost always whether we realize it or not. http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer/SB97/jwhitney/binaryopp.html   (1329 words)      Binary Opposition What is most obvious here as well is that power plays the dominant role in understanding how binary opposition and hierarchy are meant to function as aspects of all social relationships that evolve on the ground of these primary and immutable concepts. Hence, the ground is well established for the rise of the ideology of binary opposition and hierarchy in the single "fact" that God, as an All-Powerful entity, created the universe. As I have already argued elsewhere in this document ( Anshen, Bloch, Dionysius, Freedom, Harmonics), the concepts of binary opposition and hierarchical structure have their natural and inevitable origin and existence in the idea that the universe was created by an omnipotent, everlasting God. http://www.mayanastro.freeservers.com/01binaryopp.HTM   (1329 words)      Literary Encyclopedia: Binary Oppositions Therefore, deconstruction operates on binary oppositions in a threefold manner; first, it illustrates how the opposites are related, and how one is privileged over the other, secondly, it temporarily destabilizes or decentres the hierarchy and thirdly, it deconstructs both terms and advocates the unstable, “play” of meanings. Essentially, the concept of the binary opposition is engendered by the Western propensity to organize everything into a hierarchical structure; terms and concepts are related to positives or negatives, with no apparent latitude for deviation: i.e. Essentially, it is the desire for a centre which generates binary oppositions, and it is, as Derrida& work illustrates, distinctive of deconstruction to reveal the problematic character of all centres. http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=122   (1329 words)      The Uses of Binary Thinking And this whole essay could be called an exercise in saying, "There are two kinds of binary thinking, the good kind and the bad kind." In short, I acknowledge that now and then we need the invidious kind of binary opposition. For a sharp critique of the use of binary oppositions, see LaCapra 23-24. It uses binary thinking as a motor always to press on to a third term or a higher category that represents a transcendent reconciliation or unity: thesis and antithesis are always harnessed to yield synthesis. http://jac.gsu.edu/jac/13.1/Articles/4.htm   (1329 words)      Binary Oppositions He suggests that active/middle is a better candidate for the primary binary opposition. Professor Conrad pointed out that it is a mistake to see active/passive as the primary binary opposition in verb voice. Waltke and O'Connor in their treatment of the Hebrew verb system (Hebrew Syntax page???) suggest that not all phenomena in the Hebrew verb system can be modeled with binary oppositions. http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/archives/97-05/msg00529.html   (1329 words)      s/S Immediately, at the beginning of the poem we are presented with the binary opposition of sight/blindness which really stems from a more important binary pair: Amy is unable to grow accustomed to sight of her child's grave while her husband is "wonted to it" (Frost 1). There is another very important, almost meta-poetical, binary opposition that is extremely important to the interpretation of the poem. While the content of the poem is very interesting, it is the structure of the poem and the dissection of the important binary oppositions that will most fully enrich our epistemological interests. http://www.ellipsis.cx/~dcluloff/sS.html   (1329 words)      ChuckIII's College Resources - English - Gawain & binary Opposition - Free Term Papers, Book Reports, Essays, and Research Papers and other College related stuff The most common binary opposition that one thinks of is good versus evil and it is unfortunate that the first few pages of text often draw the lines for us, thus limiting the amount of influence we are susceptible to throughout the rest of the novel. Gawain and Binary Opposition As a contemporary American reader, it is all right to assume that the first scene in which the particular character is involved drastically shapes our opinion of characters in a particular novel or poem. Charles Bressler, in his book entitled Literary Criticism, defines binary opposition by saying that "for each center, there exists an opposing center (God/humankind, for example)" (125). http://www.chuckiii.com/Reports/English/Gawain__binary_Opposition.shtml   (1329 words)      1DERRIDA.LEC Derrida says that such systems are always built of the basic units structuralism analyzes--the binary opposition or pair--and that within these systems one part of that binary pair is always more important than the other, that one term is "marked" as positive and the other as negative. Second is that all systems or structures are created of binary pairs or oppositions, of two terms placed in some sort of relation to each. What Derrida does is to look at how a binary opposition--the fundamental unit of the structures or systems we've been looking at, and of the philosophical systems he refers to--functions within a system. http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/1derrida.html   (1712 words)      INTRODUCTION The subversion of this system of binary opposition and the system of patriarchy can best be articulated in literature, as bell hooks has stated, since within literature these subversions are not threatened by the reality of forms of repression that exist in the real world, except for censorship. This dissertation will present a theory of phases through which feminist disruptions of binary oppositions in selected literary works occur, providing examples of the literature that manifests these phases, and demonstrating how such a theory advances the feminist struggle to end the subjugation of women. The binary male/female is one vivid example in which male is made superior to female and therefore male becomes capable of oppressing female to maintain his superiority. http://drhanan.com/dissertation/introduction.htm   (1712 words)      TRANS Nr. 15: Wendy Ashby (Tucson, AZ): Unmasking Narrative: A Semiotic Perspective on the Conviviality/Non-Conviviality Dichotomy in Storytelling About the German "Other" This necessity is due to the factors of markendess and binary opposition and the resulting non-convivial stances toward the "Other" will be demonstrated via a process of argumentative narrative that clearly parallels the Peircean semiotic sign phenomology of states of firstness, secondness and thirdness. However, the assertion that semiosis has the potential to create a convivial society does not take into account that the very motor of semiosis, binary opposition, is inherently non-convivial by its nature of promoting markedness and difference. Instead of traditional narrations told for entertainment, argumentative narrative structures will be shown to mark the "Other" via a Peircean firstness to thirdness process by which a binary opposition of "Us" and "Them" is created. http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/01_2/ashby15.htm   (1712 words)      Arsev Ayşen Arslanoğlu How women can form their identity by overcoming the binary opposition depicting them as “the other”.... This results in understanding male and female in terms of binary opposition. Since the culture privileges the left side of the binary, the http://hamlin.cc.boun.edu.tr/~lldept/ArsevAysenArslanoglu.htm   (1712 words)      deconstruction By reading this story, it is quite possible to conjure several binary oppositions that help circumscribe the intended or even latent meanings of the text. Within the text itself, a binary opposition is actually stated to the readers. This conflict between Larry and his father can lead into another binary opposition of father versus son. http://www.wiu.edu/users/muvck/deconstr.htm   (1712 words)      Binary Opposition What is most obvious here as well is that power plays the dominant role in understanding how binary opposition and hierarchy are meant to function as aspects of all social relationships that evolve on the ground of these primary and immutable concepts. Hence, the ground is well established for the rise of the ideology of binary opposition and hierarchy in the single "fact" that God, as an All-Powerful entity, created the universe. Binary Opposition, Hierarchy, and God's Power in Early Christian Writing. http://mayanastro.freeservers.com/01binaryopp.HTM   (1712 words)      Social Research: It was in China, late one moonless night - Part V: representations of privacy in literature and film Where these two binary oppositional terms meet and where they depart is the creative corner of her artistic claim in contemporary art, the precise locus of her global celebration, in precisely inarticulate terms. The constellation of Mahram and Na-Mahram is by far the most anxiety-provoking binary opposition in an Islamic context. It is equally important to keep in mind that the categorical exclusion of Na-Mahram also stands in opposition to Khodi, "he or she who belongs to oneself'; and thus Khodi and Gharibeh constitute an adjacent binary opposition to Mahram and Na-Mahram. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_3_70/ai_110737787   (766 words)      The Binary Proletariat Both groups are part of the Binary Proletariat, but there is a polar opposition between the laborers directly involved with digital technology (well-paid and living in developed countries) and laborers who are indirectly involved (workers in shoe factories). The result is that the mythical [ 18 ] American class mobility has turned into a binary opposition; you may grow very rich, or you may grow very poor. But with the ephemeral, casual, and de-centralized world of digital employment, each binary proletarian worker often defines the means of production (juggling temporary contracts and multiple clients). http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_5/bolt   (766 words)            228     \\ Another example of a contested binary opposition is rational vs emotional, in which the rational term is usually privileged and associated with men, while emotional is inferior and associated with women. A binary opposition is a pair of opposiites, thought by the Structuralists to powerfully form and organize human thought and culture. Some are commonsense, such as raw vs cooked; however, many such oppositions imply or are used in such a way that privileges one of the terms of the opposition, creating a hierarchy. http://228.blogspot.com/2004_08_11_228_archive.html   (766 words)      MTO 6.1: Mirka, Texture in Penderecki's Sonoristic Style Categories of the basic system are a few binary oppositions concerning pitch, time, and loudness: spatial mobility vs. immobility, temporal mobility vs. immobility, spatial continuity vs. discontinuity, temporal continuity vs. discontinuity, high vs. low register, loud vs. soft dynamics. Seen from the angle of the opposition between spatial mobility and immobility, this section begins with a negative term: spatial immobility results from repetitions of an atypical technique of playing stringed instruments that consists of striking the fingerboard with the palm of the hand. This type of opposition is represented by spatial continuity vs. discontinuity, temporal continuity vs. discontinuity, spatial mobility vs. immobility, temporal mobility vs. immobility. http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/issues/mto.00.6.1/mto.00.6.1.mirka.html   (766 words)

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