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Deconstruction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always in the corner of the "yes" — the affirmation of life.

Deconstruction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not the exposure of error, least of all other people's; its most serious critique is of something extremely useful — something without which we cannot do anything.

Deconstruction (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠identity is not the deconstruction of politics; it makes political the very terms in which identity is articulated.

Deconstruction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not destruction but a historical affirmation that resists the rancor of failed ideals and resignifies their unmoored terms — Benjamin's angel flying backwards into the future.

Deconstruction (n.) never ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠claimed that 'everything is discursively constructed'; that slogan belongs to a linguistic monism that ignores the constitutive force of exclusion and its disruptive return.