A philosophical and social-theoretical movement questioning the objectivity and stability of the interpretive structures structuralism posited, arguing that meaning is destabilized by context, power and difference rather than fixed within a closed system of relations. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own accountRejects the structuralist assumption that a system's elements (such as a dominant term and its subservient counterpart in a binary pair) hold a fixed, stable relation to one another, arguing instead that such oppositions can be destabilized and read against themselves. 1 Origin YearSourced to the subject's own accountSources give the decade of emergence (France, the 1960s) rather than a single founding year; 1960 stands for the start of that decade, not a precise date. Connections
Associated With
Michel Foucault is among the theorists most closely identified with poststructuralism, alongside Derrida.
Source Wikipedia: Poststructuralism
Power/knowledge is a signature poststructuralist concept, part of the same theoretical current already live on this atlas.
Critiqued Here
Poststructuralism developed as a critical reaction to structuralism rather than a wholesale rejection; several theorists associated with it declined the poststructuralist label themselves.
Source Wikipedia: Poststructuralism
Institutions Informed
Deconstruction is a key analytical strand within the broader poststructuralist movement this atlas already carries as a live theory.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Poststructuralism
WikipediaOpening paragraph, description
Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism.
Relationship with structuralism, core claim
Post-structuralism rejects the structuralist notion that the dominant word in a pair is dependent on its subservient counterpart.
History section, origin
Post-structuralism emerged in France during the 1960s as a movement critiquing structuralism.
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