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Read My Desire, Pt. 3: Sex, Difference, Relation

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Poststructuralism and the Deridian Position

Butler argues that meaning must be determined retroactively, forgetting the diachronic nature of meaning./nThis leads to the founding of linguistics on the systematic totality of language./nPoststructuralism takes an antithetical position by simply ignoring the requirement for the completion of meaning.

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