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What results is a materialist post-structuralism which is also distinctively different from the post-structuralism of writers such as Derrida, Lyotard and Baudrilliard.

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  1. noun A method of analyzing phenomena, as in anthropology, linguistics, psychology, or literature, chiefly characterized by contrasting the elemental structures of the phenomena in a system of binary opposition.
  2. noun A school that advocates and employs such a method.

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  • So by a process familiar to everyone who's ever heard the word "structuralism", the mob must be the opposite: bigoted, chauvinistic, irrational, ignorant, uncritical, and in short, the inevitable prey of a Hitler redivivus, unless they're kept in line. —  Stop Me Before I Vote Again
  • At first it makes you laugh, because you think of all the ridiculous (and often arbitrary) modern artistic movements that slap "post" as a prefix and call it a day; post-structuralism, post-minimalism, post-modern, so on and so forth, world without end, amen. —  Progressive U - The new media voice for students
  • Structuralism, post-structuralism, neo-liberalism: assessing Foucault's legacy —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This article traces Foucault's distinctive commitment to 'post-structuralism' through tracing the affinities and departures from structuralism. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • What results is a materialist post-structuralism which is also distinctively different from the post-structuralism of writers such as Derrida, Lyotard and Baudrilliard. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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