Beyond Deconstruction?
I introduksjonsessayet til tekstsamlingen Robespierre: Virtue and Terror (2007) tematiserer Slavoj Zizek det han kaller "today's post-deconstructionist thought" (xiii). Dette er også det tematiske utgangspunktet i siste nummer av e-tidsskriftet In-Spire, som drives av post-graduate studenter ved Keele University.
Under overskriften Beyond Critiques and Deconstruction diskuteres forholdet mellom dekonstruksjon, kritikk og praksis fra ulike posisjoner. Redaktørene skriver i introduksjonen: "It should also be understood that while deconstruction allows for other forms of knowledge, it also creates a disjunction between critique and practice. This disjunction takes the form of the political relevance that deconstrction creates within praxis, but which is either omitted or discounted in traditional thinking as completely impractical because it represents neither a technique nor method that can be applied as such. In this way, deconstruction offers a political space where the inter-sectionality of ideas and practices shapes the way we think, and where philosophical positioning can help to move us away from merely empirical claims about 'truth' to an understanding of how knowledge can be practically applied to relevant social context".