Robert Paul ReschThinkers

Deconstruction is a wrongheaded a-political critique whose outcomes are known in advance or a series of finger-exercises is to effect equally parasitic violations, reversals, disruption, or whatever, of existing practices.

Deconstruction is problematic in that it is nothing more than, on the one hand, a series of increasingly monotonous and mechanical critiques of the discourse of others (whose outcomes are known in advance), and on the other, a series of virtuosic finger exercises whose raison d'etre is an equally parasitic violation, reversal, disruption, or whatever, of existing practice.

Deconstruction is simply the cynical obverse of positivism.

Modernism is a continuation of the enlightenment project to criticize the existing state of affairs and change it for the better, to eliminate systematic and unnecessary exploitation.

Modernism is a social tension between inexhaustible technological growth, class inequality, and imperialism.

Modernism is an attitude decisively influenced by the manifest contradictions and irrational development of bourgeois europe.

Modernism is representative of an increased consciousness of the formal structures which shaped his or her perception and representation of the object, as well as the limitations and potentials which resulted from methodological self-awareness.

Structural marxism is concerned with 'ideological interpellation' and 'ideological apparatuses'.

Structural marxism is concerned with 'structural causality' and the methodological implications of 'differential history.

Structural marxism is concerned with the distinctions among science, ideology, and philosophy.