Deconstructionism
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A peculiarly French strand of post-modernism — leading lights numbering among them Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Julia Kristeva — all pictured with amusing roll neck sweaters, Galois cigarettes and wavby hairdos — “deconstructionists” whose main industry was attacking existing power structures behind received knowledge, intending to wipe away the power structures and radically reinterpret the world