The Deconstruction of Deconstruction—Or, How I Learned to Love the Derrida
(Feb 25/06)
Returning I have just returned from a philosophical/theological parley on the Deconstruction of Christianity--or, when did it start and when will it come to a full stop? Or, when is enough deconstruction enough? Or, either or—how does a construct deconstruct without reconstructing itself ad nausea? Either or, or either—who cares? Deconstruction I liken to the snake eating it’s tail, a circularity with neither a beginning nor an end, but a continual becoming or eternal reoccurrence, in the Nietzschean sense. That which is deconstructed in turn propagates the construction of the deconstruction, ad infinitum, or there about. In this manner, or weighsay, we might ask ourselves which comes first, the construction or the deconstruction. The answer, I suggest, is neither, as the two are synonymous, cut from the same bolt of philosophical cloth. The one begs the existence of the other, or more properly, neither one nor the other. More so, neither either nor either neither. Nor either nor neither or either nor neither either—ad infinitum, or there about. The deconstruction is the construction of the deconstruction. To construct is to deconstruct that which came prior to the construction, or, to deconstruct is to construct that which came after the construction of the deconstruction. You see, no doubt, the inherent menace of this construct/destruct phenomenon.
Returning I have just returned from a philosophical/theological parley on the Deconstruction of Christianity--or, when did it start and when will it come to a full stop? Or, when is enough deconstruction enough? Or, either or—how does a construct deconstruct without reconstructing itself ad nausea? Either or, or either—who cares? Deconstruction I liken to the snake eating it’s tail, a circularity with neither a beginning nor an end, but a continual becoming or eternal reoccurrence, in the Nietzschean sense. That which is deconstructed in turn propagates the construction of the deconstruction, ad infinitum, or there about. In this manner, or weighsay, we might ask ourselves which comes first, the construction or the deconstruction. The answer, I suggest, is neither, as the two are synonymous, cut from the same bolt of philosophical cloth. The one begs the existence of the other, or more properly, neither one nor the other. More so, neither either nor either neither. Nor either nor neither or either nor neither either—ad infinitum, or there about. The deconstruction is the construction of the deconstruction. To construct is to deconstruct that which came prior to the construction, or, to deconstruct is to construct that which came after the construction of the deconstruction. You see, no doubt, the inherent menace of this construct/destruct phenomenon.
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