TOPIC: Post-structuralism/Postmodernism Post-structuralism/PostmodernismINSTRUCTOR: Hazir Ullah Hazir UllahTime: 11:00 am to 12:30am 11:00 am to 12:30am

StructuralismPoststructuralism Structuralism was an intellectual movement in France in the 1950s and 1960s Post-structuralism emerged in France during the 1960s as an anti movement critiquing structuralism. A major theory associated with Structuralism was binary opposition (i.e. male/female; traditional/modern; enlightenment/romantic; rational and emotional Post-structuralism offers a way of studying how knowledge is produced and critiques structuralist’s premises. Post-structuralism rejects the notion of the essential quality of the dominant relation in the hierarchy (i.e. Deconstruction) Stress to see and understand the text (object) and the system the knowledge was produced Stress Scientific Study of human society and human nature Poststructuralism denies the possibility of a truly scientific study of "man" or of "human nature.

Key Poststructuralists  Jacques Derrida (Binnary opposition and hiérarchie)  Michel Foucault (Discoures)  Judith Butler (Agency)

Key message of postmodernism is:  Postmodernism postulates that many, if not all, apparent realities are only social constructs and are therefore subject to change.  Realities are plural and relatives.  P ostmodernism is generally considered to have been conceived during the early twentieth century. Postmodernism gained significant popularity in the 1950s and dominated literature and art by the 1960s

ModernismPostmodernism EnlightenmentPost-enlightenment Absolute truthRelativism/ reality is socially constructed and context bound Humanism / liberalismCultural specificity HomogeneousHeterogeneous Universal LawDeconstruction IndustriesInformation Social structureAgency PatriarchySexual Fluidity RealitySimulation ConclusionInconlusive/ language play