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Originally Posted by Glice
I entirely agree with the first sentence of this post, and agree with the remainder also.
Unfortunately, there's a particularly Derridian irony to the fact that the word 'deconstruct' has been subject to effacement to the effect that it is now used as a synonym for 'analyse/ analysis'. Personally, it strikes me that this is far more widespread in the States than it is over this side of the Atlantic; it's not for me to say that this process is wrong (I'm not clever enough to take on the might of our beautifully fluid language) - I can, however, assert that it baffles me quite why people say 'deconstruct' when 'analyse' seems infinitely more fitting.
Deconstruction is, to my understanding, not a single process that may be applied to anything one wants to; it's a similar misunderstanding to the commonly held ones about the (already horrifically complicated/ convoluted) notion of postmodernism.
Anyway, it's the internet, and you've all switched off to watch porn or something by now. I think the answer to the question is probably "people say too many things. Less people speaking would be a good thing" so long as it's understood that I am not one of the people who should stop speaking.
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Glice,
I think deconstruction and analysis go hand in hand, the first to break texts (ie: music, plays whatever) down in the sum of its parts to analyse the small portions to gain a deeper understanding of the greater unit and beable to give they greater unit a more thorough analysis.