Deconstruction
On Friday, I looked at the wiki article on literary deconstruction for the first time, due to Randall Munroe's xkcd strip where it was mentioned in the alt-text, as I'm sure many others did. 
"Confusing or unclear"? Ya think?
This article supports my prejudice that a lot of academic literary criticism is just a bunch of wankers picking books apart to no good purpose. - Theta, I didn't say "all", please don't kill me. It's clearly different from any other kind of sensible analysis that would make a text more useful, enjoyable, or understandable.
Also, notice that the article has been locked from editing. This generally happens to wiki articles after they're referenced in xkcd - notoriously, the one on "Wood".
posted by xenobiologista @ 22:11
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Literarature majors and critics have simply been around alot longer than IT folks and geeks. The same deconstruction that gets applied to William Faulkner's "Light in August" also gets applied to Joss Whedon's "Serenity", George Lucas' "Star Wars", and Linus Torvalds' Linux.
Second-guessing George Lucas is probably less rewarding than second-guessing William Faulkner. I truly don't believe that Lucas had any great epic in mind when he wrote Star Wars. It was only in hindsight that Campbell's observations got thrust upon him. =)
I can't imagine majoring in English Lit or Philosophy. I'd rather stick in IT with absolute "works" or "doesn't work" than English "maybe he meant", "no, he meant..."
Interesting... I noticed that 'Wood' thing. Woo XKCD!
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