
Jacques Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play"
Theory & Philosophy
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Levis Strauss and the Brickolar
The Brickolar is someone who makes use of anything that is made available to them. So an engineer makes a hammer which is meant to hit things you know hammer and nail in or something. But if you are a Brickolar you might use a hammer for a whole slew of different things. It might be a door stop. You might use it as a shoe horn. I have no idea the possibilities are endless. The structure thing that we are confronted with here this hammer that is kind of given a face by this center that is the engineer is called into question, says Strauss.
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