Friday, 18 March 2011

Derrida's problematic "definition"

Derrida stubbornly refused to define the term and thus failed to fix it. It is an activity, a reading of the text, which shows that the text is not a discrete whole but that it has more than one interpretation and very many conflicting interpretations.
Example – Inside/Outside, nature/culture, opposing terms, questions and re-thinks the terms.

The ideas conveyed by deconstruction have profoundly influenced literature, architecture, graphic design, new media, film theory and fashion.

Designers generated new construction and signification possibilities – questioning traditions of what is invisible and what is unseen. They re-thought and subverted the parameters determining what is high and low fashion. They challenged the relationship between memory and modernity, enduring and ephemeral.

The deconstructed body – the dressed body represents the physical and cultural territory where the visible and sensible performance of our identity takes place. Fashion shows how absence, dislocation and reproduction affect the relationship between the individual body and a frozen idealisation of it.

Designers criticised for their “shapeless” garments, argues they are “neutral”, so neither revealing or accentuating the body.

Kawakubo 1997 Comme de garcon s/s Dress becomes body becomes dress”, reversal of the relation between the body and the dress. Body reacts to the garment. Containment and inside/outside are crucial to the effectiveness of the deconstruction theory. Also present in Margiela’s Doll’s Wardrobe s/s 1999.

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