It continued to reign into the 21st century, as did artful deconstructions.
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But there are even more radical deconstructions of gender and sex out there.
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Which it does, in the form of squeally saxophone deconstructions, courtesy Chris Duffin.
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Nanette is propelled by passion, expertise, and fascinating deconstructions of society and comedy.
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Her righteous deconstructions of America are now the backbone of contemporary American literature.
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He followed that in 2002 with "Pride and Joy," jazz deconstructions of Motown classics.
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" (IFC), two bracing deconstructions of talk shows that are clearly descendants of "Awesome Show.
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In short: Watch Incredibles 2 if you love superhero deconstructions, family comedy, or Pixar at its best.
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The set included both deconstructions of Gillespie's repertoire and Douglas originals inspired by his famed trumpet forebear.
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We may like highfalutin foie gras deconstructions and ambitious ramp foams, but really our tastes our pretty simple.
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At the very least, it was less sloppy, as teams gelled in anticipation of their inevitable postseason deconstructions.
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And the various references and deconstructions notwithstanding, there were jokes that worked purely because of the pacing and writing.
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Some periods of history lend themselves well to full-throated, brightly colored adventures, while others are better suited to darker deconstructions.
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There's also a natural affinity between him and Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, both of whom specialize in artful deconstructions of the past.
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My real introduction to the medium was '80s and '90s Vertigo-style titles, which were all about gritty "adult" deconstructions and inversions of superhero stories.
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Or are you satisfied with its balance of interesting deconstructions of racism and society and unidentified flying objects whisking old men away into the sky?
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Perhaps Yeezus's most dynamic alumni was Arca, whose experimental deconstructions of trap and electronica had only thus far appeared on the shelves on UNO NYC.
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Her works can be described as research into dimensions, deconstructions, and explosion of forms exploring topics of virtual authorship and the physicality of the Internet.
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Others are more banal deconstructions of the media as entertainment, including a line of TVs looping silent, surveillance-like footage of the artist simply eating.
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The leaner operation of Mexican Summer offers a more-intimate, safer space, even as Pink's presaged deconstructions of cherubic-diva-cosplay manifest disingenuously in mainstream pop.
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The promise of those early dance music deconstructions finally comes full circle here, finding moves in those odd left turns that accentuate the power of the songwriting.
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Now, all those hopes and dreams have devolved into breathless deconstructions of courtside exchanges with fans and team-issued apologies — or nonapologies, as the case may be.
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The appropriation of traditional imagery is often discussed in terms of negations or deconstructions, but I don't see the works in Queerly Tèhuäntin | Cuir Us as iconoclastic.
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The Italian producer moved to Berlin back in 2009, and has been putting out some deep and atmospheric techno deconstructions as Dadub, along with co-producer Giovanni Conti.
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Between the two of them they've made colorful deconstructions of mainstage dance music, blistered pop punk, delirious club flips, grayscale sound art, and a nigh-uncountable amount of straight up uncharacterizeable tracks.
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In the gallery, these objects are deconstructions of things that appear to be of "museum quality" (half of a sculptured face, mosaic tiles arranged to mimic something akin to an ancient vessel).
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Ms. Yerushalmy's "Paramodernities #2 and #3," at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, are installments of a proposed series in which she collaborates with scholars on deconstructions of canonical modern dance works.
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Though a good portion of i like it is earmarked for Healy's deconstructions of his boho-himbo self-image, he concedes to pop music as the best platform to get his rickety, revolutionary message across.
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Transmitter is currently hosting "Living Still," a thought-provoking group show of retrofuturist still lifes (through May 22.0), while Microscope will open an exhibition of Kevin Reuning's etched-plexiglass deconstructions of computer-animated faces on Friday.
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In London, he is one of the youngest practitioners of a German stage philosophy sometimes known as Regietheater (literally, "director's theater") that often takes liberties with plot details and can subject canonical works to strenuous deconstructions.
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Real passion is in short supply in "Obsession," the latest offering from Mr. van Hove, whose brilliant deconstructions of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" and "The Crucible" shook up staid Broadway the season before last.
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Death Peak's first half is more club-friendly—driving techno peppered with disorienting and unexpected deconstructions and flourishes—while the last four tracks are something of an orchestral brain dance suite, which owes a debt to Steve Reich.
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Well maybe I did when I was three, and possibly when I was four, but I quickly realised aged five that it wasn't very flattering so quickly switched back to writing lengthy deconstructions of my peers at that age.
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The concerts for the latter were bonkers, starting the run as avant-garde, meticulously choreographed deconstructions of a traditional rock show, and ending it with exorcisms that entailed Clark crumpling down a 10-foot pink plywood pyramid like a drunken horse.
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Uncompromising, jarring and chaotic, the record subverted mainstream R&B and pop culture (see their deconstructions of Beyonce's "Drunk in Love" and "Formation" on that tape) and, in doing so, soundtracked the hedonism and articulated the struggles of Berlin's queer and poc communities.
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When the collected edition of V for Vendetta was published at the end of the decade, it connected with the same adventurous adult-fantasy fans who'd devoured Moore's previous deconstructions of pulp adventure, in his comics series Swamp Thing, Miracleman, and Watchmen.
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Mr. Rudetsky also writes books, organizes theater cruises and is a prolific contributor to YouTube, where he posts what he calls "deconstructions" — clips where he lip-syncs and then analyzes the Broadway performances of Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckley and the like.
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Tracks like "Hard World Toys" remind me of DEVO's deconstructions of pop songwriting and some of the contemporary echoes of that tradition (like the masked freaks of New York's Haord Records), but something about her algorithmic lyric approach gives the songs real heart.
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ERIK PIEPENBURG INVALUABLE REVIVALS In staging Adrienne Kennedy's "Funnyhouse of a Negro" (1969) and Suzan-Lori Parks's "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World" (1990), Signature Theater Company offered two phantasmagorical deconstructions of racism and its legacies.
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Almost as soon as Blake began to get attention for his lively deconstructions of dance music (his breakout EP and single were tellingly titled "CMYK," as in the full-color printing scheme), he seemed inclined to turn away toward the grayer expanse of melancholy singer-songwriter balladry.
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Even before last Wednesday's results, I had been struggling to discern what, aside from deconstructions of big data, Prévieux was getting at with his modest yet stirring show, The Graphic Method, on view at the similarly modest yet impactful artist-run Chicago exhibition space, Julius Caesar.
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In "How to Hold a Grudge," Hannah peppers discussions of the grudges of others with deconstructions of her own — grudges being negative experiences from the past "that you choose to remember in the present for valid, positive reasons," she says — and of her forgive-but-do-not-forget philosophy.
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From the outsider anthems of their earliest work to the dial-up tone deconstructions of Jonny Greenwood's more outré guitar solos, Radiohead has always made music that's fascinated with the idea of connecting—the struggle and strain to form real human bonds in spite of a social climate that intensely favors isolation.
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As both a solo artist and a prolific remixer, he's always been keen to take the established forms of dance music and turn them on their head—stretching funk hits to endless odysseys, flipping pop songs into bleary-eyed dancefloor deconstructions, and more generally proving the mantra that, yes, house is a feeling, more than a sound.
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There's a good chance we won't have Ariana Grande impersonators in sophisticated nightclubs in 30 years or YouTube deconstructions for those who think Lady Gaga was robbed of an Oscar for her performance in "A Star Is Born" 65 years from now the way we're still analyzing Ms. Garland's loss in the same role to Grace Kelly in 1955.
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Those of us who think, write and talk about race for a living, crafting provocative deconstructions of power and privilege, have always associated ourselves with some vaguely defined insurgency against a racist reality; regardless of where we work, whether at Harvard or at The New York Times, we locate ourselves first through our identities, and only then through our work and the financial freedoms it affords.
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He is best remembered for the witty deconstructions of the French language which he invented for Sol.
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The music has been described as going beyond the remix to becoming deconstructions of music. Maher said that most of his source material was 90s rap tapes.
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Steven Hyden observes several "hallmarks of '70s prog and '80s soft rock" other than the influence of Gabriel's "art-school deconstructions of classic '60s soul", including Goldenhearts Roxy Music-esque album cover.
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There are three major criticisms of Lyotard's work. Each coincides with a school of thought. Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy have written deconstructions of Lyotard's work (Derrida 1992; Nancy 1985).Derrida, Jacques. 2005.
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One of the very many difficulties of expressing Jacques Derrida's project (deconstruction) in simple terms is the enormous scale of it. Just to understand the context of Derrida's theory, one needs to be acquainted intimately with philosophers, such as, Socrates–Plato–Aristotle, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Charles Sanders Peirce, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emmanuel Levinas, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and others. Some have tried to write simplified versions of this theory, such as Deconstruction for BeginnersPowell, James and Lee, Joe, Deconstruction for Beginners (Writers & Readers Publishing, 2005). and Deconstructions: A User's Guide,Nicholas Royle, Deconstructions: A User's Guide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).
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He also studied D-brane deconstructions in IIB Orientifolds. He delivered a keynote at the Conference for African American Research in Mathematical Sciences. He was a member of the Center for the Fundamental Law of Nature. Esole was appointed as an assistant professor at Northeastern University in 2016.
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Merzzow is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. The album "combines animal concepts and deconstructions of 20th-century music, ambient drones and a deep grinding groove". The title is a pun on Merzbow and the Japanese word . The cover photos were taken at Tsukiji Hongan-ji.
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Hise, Jeri. "Interview with Leigh Behnke," Leigh Behnke Real Spaces, Imagined Lives, Padova, Italy: Coop. Libraria Editrice Universita di Padova, 2005. Art historian Virginia Anne Bonito wrote that in this work Behnke sought to create representational versions of Josef Albers's abstract, chromatic investigations (the "Square" paintings), colorist analogues to Muybridge's stop-action photography, and deconstructions of Cubism.
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Boom! The album's concept compares a violent storm to a roller coaster; its lyrical themes vary from horrorcore-based character deconstructions and songs about the supernatural to humorous and lighter subject matter. Clark's production was praised by critics, and the album peaked at number 20 on the Billboard 200. It is the group's 23rd overall release.
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In 2017, Hardy Fox, long known to be associated with the Residents, identified himself as the band's co-founder and primary composer; he died in 2018. The Residents' albums generally fall into two categories: deconstructions of Western popular music, and complex conceptual pieces composed around a theme, theory, or plot. The group is noted for surrealistic lyrics and sound, with a disregard for conventional music composition.
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On June 18, 2012, Rudetsky started a website called SETH TV. The site has archives of video and a $5/month subscription fee for exclusive content. Rudetsky posts video "deconstructions" to his web site in which he deconstructs the singing voices of Broadway performers. On Thursday evenings, he hosts Seth's Broadway Chatterbox, a one-hour talk show, at a New York City club, Don't Tell Mama on 46th Street.
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Walls of Genius is an avant-garde music ensemble from Colorado. They participated in the 1980s Cassette Culture and experimented with psychedelic improvisations, free-jazz, punk-rock, uninhibited and manic deconstructions of pop, jazz and country-western standards to musique concrète, industrial noise and sound collages. Walls Of Genius was both reviled and loved by the Cassette Culture. Walls Of Genius was active from 1982-1985 and revived in 2014.
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All operations in the formidably-hostile environment of the Bosnia Posavina Corridor were done tactically with weapons at the ready. Logging over 256 tactical convoys covering more than 220,000 vehicle miles within a 75-day operation. FORTY completed camp deconstructions and provided contingency construction support for nineteen critical force projects—enabling enforcement of the Dayton Peace Accord. In 2003, "Fighting FORTY" was called to support Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
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Recently there has been interest in how the modern militaries have constructed their knowledge. Military science in modern armed forces has taken on the aura of a hard science when it is arguably a combination of hard science, sociology ("soft science"), and military history (the humanities). Postmodern deconstructions of the assumptions behind modern military science can be effective in revealing how modern militaries have socially constructed their reality.Chris Paparone (2013), The Sociology of Military Science, NY: Bloomsbury.
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TPG was an "environmental theatre" – meaning that each production took place in an entirely redesigned space. Most of TPG's productions were directed by Schechner, though others including Joan MacIntosh, Stephen Borst, James Griffiths, Leeny Sack, Elizabeth LeCompte, and Spalding Gray either directed their own works or works by others. TPG's designers included Jerry Rojo, Michael Kirby, and Jim Clayburgh. Some of TPG's productions were collages of various texts, other productions were radical deconstructions of classics, and some works were brand new.
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The print edition is notable for containing many colorful cartoons and full-page illustrations by various artists who are prominently credited for their work. Noam Chomsky and Glenn Greenwald have praised the magazine's work. Writings in Current Affairs include critiques and history of popular culture, discussions of policy and its implementation, and creative fixes for societal problems. The magazine has also published several long deconstructions of works by popular right-wing figures such as Charles Murray, Tucker Carlson, and Jordan Peterson.
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"Untitled (madness)", 1996, oil on canvas, Marina Núñez Her work was first exhibited in the early 1990s. Her depictions of madwomen. and female monsters revealed an interest in gender discourses -in deconstructions and propositions about women's identities, in the wake of what was one of the great discursive achievements of feminism of the 60th-70th and later. Her oil painting, narrative and conceptual, progressively combined, from the first decade of 2000, with digital techniques in 2D and 3D, both still image and video.
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Hunt's Star Theory began to focus on race and the white genocide conspiracy theory, As well as historical revisionism in regards to the Third Reich (although it ridiculed American neo- Nazism as supposedly "controlled opposition"). While anti-Jewish sentiment was permitted on Oracle Broadcasting, white nationalism and Holocaust denial. Hunt, as well as Michael Titorenko (under the name "Mike Sledge") of Deconstructions Live, were subsequently expelled from the network in October 2012. Also in October 2012, Hunt began the internet radio network Renegade Broadcasting.
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Mohammed Chaouki Zine is an Algerian philosopher and writer. He was born on May 13, 1972 in Oran, Algeria. He has been interested for several years to Contemporary Western philosophy as testifies his Hermeneutics and Deconstructions (Beirut-Casablanca, 2002), where he speaks about many philosophers like Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Michel de Certeau, Hans- Georg Gadamer, Richard Rorty and Jean Baudrillard. He has a Ph.D. on Arabic and Iberian Studies about the mystic and Andalusian philosopher from Spain Ibn Arabi (Murcia, 1165–1240, Damascus).
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Dub producers made improvised deconstructions of existing multi-track reggae mixes by using the studio mixing board as a performance instrument. They also foregrounded spatial effects such as reverb and delay by using auxiliary send routings creatively. The Roland Space Echo, manufactured by Roland Corporation, was widely used by dub producers in the 1970s to produce echo and delay effects. Despite the limited electronic equipment available to dub pioneers such as King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry, their experiments in remix culture were musically cutting-edge.
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" Finally, he wrote: "But Follies never makes fun of the honorable musical tradition to which it belongs. The show and the score have a double vision: simultaneously squinting at the messes people make of their lives and wide- eyed at the lingering grace and lift of the music they want to hear. Sondheim's songs aren't parodies or deconstructions; they are evocations that recognize the power of a love song. In 1971 or 2001, Follies validates the legend that a Broadway show can be an event worth dressing up for.
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Special Nothing/Especial Nada (2003, with Anton Skrzypiciel and Miguel Borges) presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival was considered by The Herald as "a fabulous blast" and "the inspired springboard for a fascinating window into creative processes and what constitutes 'art'". Burgher King Lear (2006, also interpreted by Skrzypiciel and Borges) was selected as one of the best 2006 Portuguese performances and described as one of the most accomplished and intelligent deconstructions of a classical theater text recently staged, achieving success in Spain, where it was awarded the FAD Sebastià Gash 2008 Prize (Barcelona).
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Instead of the complex gender deconstructions of her Andy Warhol films, she became typecast as a lesbian or domineering woman. Sylvia Kristel, after starring in Emmanuelle (1974), found herself highly associated with the film and the sexual liberation of the 1970s. Caught between the transgressive elements of her cult film and the mainstream appeal of soft-core pornography, she was unable to work in anything but exploitation films and Emmanuelle sequels. Despite her immense popularity and cult following, she would rate only a footnote in most histories of European cinema if she was even mentioned.
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64 Within the ego, the crypt represents the burial of an unspeakable lived shame: 'When one can not recognize one's grief, trauma and all the emotions that it provokes find themselves led away into a vault. The crypt is the result of a shameful secret shared'Dupont — shared with the lost object of love. 'Crypts are only constructed when the shameful secret is the love object's doing and when that object also functions for the subject as an ego ideal'.Abraham and Torok, quoted in Nicholas Royle, Deconstructions (2000) p.
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Sociologist Thomas Gieryn refers to "some sociologists who might appear to be antiscience". Some "philosophers and antiscience types", he contends, may have presented "unreal images of science that threaten the believability of scientific knowledge", or appear to have gone "too far in their antiscience deconstructions". The question often lies in how much scientists conform to the standard ideal of "communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, originality, and... skepticism". Unfortunately, "scientists don't always conform... scientists do get passionate about pet theories; they do rely on reputation in judging a scientist's work; they do pursue fame and gain via research".
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See the biographical sketch at Snodgrass was known to friends throughout his life as "De", pronounced "dee","Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass dies" , Associated Press, January 14, 2009, retrieved same day but only published using his initials. He had a long and distinguished academic career, having taught at Cornell (1955-7), Rochester (1957-8), Wayne State (1959–68), Syracuse (1968-1977), Old Dominion (1978-9), and the University of Delaware. He retired from teaching in 1994 to devote himself full-time to his writing. This included autobiographical sketches, essays, and the critical verse "deconstructions" of De/Construct.
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Shut the Fuck Up (1984) was likewise commissioned by De Appel, this time in collaboration with Time Based Arts, also for Dutch television. Pilot, an appropriation of the documentary format, is a further elaboration of the General Idea identity. Test Tube (a faux-soap opera, complete with commercials) and Shut the Fuck Up are deconstructions of and confrontations with the media distortion of the persona of the artist. The group had been, throughout their career thus far, making multiples and editions, each of which was a further elaboration of, or in some way tied to an existing General Idea work.
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William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was the writer who finally brought science fiction together with the trends of postmodern literature. With the help of Jack Kerouac, Burroughs published Naked Lunch, the first of a series of novels employing a semi-dadaistic technique called the Cut-up and postmodern deconstructions of conventional society, pulling away the mask of normality to reveal nothingness beneath. Burroughs showed visions of society as a conspiracy of aliens, monsters, police states, drug dealers and alternate levels of reality. The linguistics of science fiction merged with the experiments of postmodernism in a beat generation gestalt.
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Her first novel, Halfway Human, was a new entry into the genre of Gender Science Fiction, portraying a world in which humans have three genders: male, female, and neuter. It has been called "one of the most compelling explorations of gender and power in recent SF"Locus Magazine, as quoted in Goodreads author page and compared favorably to the work of Ursula K. Le Guin. The book placed 2nd in the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for the Tiptree Award. Her work is known for vivid portrayals and deconstructions of the culture of the peoples in her stories.
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BlueBeat uses proprietary and patent-pending technology to create sound-alike recordings of previously recorded musical works, called “Psycho-Acoustic Simulations,” based on psychoacoustics, a branch of science that studies the psychological and physiological responses associated with sound (including speech and music). In a 2009 interview, Risan said the Psycho-Acoustic Simulations are "akin to songs performed by 'cover' bands." To create Psycho-Acoustic Simulations, BlueBeat sound engineers (a) analyze and deconstruct original sound recordings into their component parts, (b) create compositional scores based on the deconstructions, (c) synthesize replacement sounds, and (d) fix the sounds in a virtual 3-D sound stage in MP3 format.
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Bailey in concert, 2007 In 2001, Bailey began touring the globe with Bewilderness. A recording of a performance in Swansea was released on DVD the same year, and the show was broadcast on Channel 4 that Christmas. A modified version of it also proved successful in America, and in 2002 Bailey released a CD of a recording at the WestBeth Theatre in New York City. The show contained his popular music parodies (such as Unisex Chip Shop, a Billy Bragg tribute, which he also performed with Bragg himself at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival), "three men in a pub" jokes (including one in the style of Geoffrey Chaucer) and deconstructions of television themes such as Countdown and The Magic Roundabout.
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Kimberly Blaeser writes in "The New "Frontier" of Native American Literature: Dis-Arming History with Tribal Humor," that the book confronts political bias in Native American historiography with satire and humor. In a 2005 paper titled "Narrative and Moral Intelligence in Gordon Henry Jr's The Light People," David Callahan states that the "narrative surprises generated by [Henry's] interlocking narratives" in the book are not merely post-modern deconstructions but rather devices used traditionally in Native American storytelling. Callahan writes that Oskinaway's narrative subverts the typical coming-of-age tropes of the Blidungsroman, depicting the boy's growing up as a communal rather than individualistic undertaking. Callahan also writes that Henry's complex and poetic sentence structure in flashback sequences depicts how fondly memories tend to be re-imagined.
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Lenman announced he would release Shuffle on 5 July 2019. The album would be made up of covers, with Lenman influenced by the "technical deconstructions" from the likes of Biffy Clyro and Arcane Roots, Shuffle would see him cover songs by The Beatles, the theme song from Popeye, Bernard Herrmann's theme for the 1976 film Taxi Driver and more. Lenman laid out that it had long been a career goal of his to put out a covers record and that he had in fact wanted to originally do it after the release of Muscle Memory. Discussing his song and style choices for the record, Lenman described the piece as an attempt "to redefine the concept of a covers album – not just lazy sound-alikes of ’80s classics, not just ironic metal versions of pop tunes".
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Flavorwires Elisabeth Donnely said that literary criticism "needs a poptimist revolution" in order to understand current literary phenomena such as Fifty Shades of Grey and better connect with the reading audience. In 2015, Salon published an article subtitled "Book criticism needs a poptimist revolution to take down the genre snobs", in which Rachel Kramer Bussell argued that book critics ignore often very good work and alienate readers by focusing only on genres considered "literary". Writing for Salon in 2016, Scott Timberg commented on critics giving increasing amounts of respect to celebrity chef Guy Fieri, saying "Love or hate what is called poptimism, the impulse seems to be coming to food and restaurant criticism". Timberg likened food critics' "'in defense of [Fieri]' movement" to rock critics who "began writing apologias for Billy Joel and composed learned deconstructions of Britney Spears".
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The book was conceived while the author was in Minneapolis, and completed while he was writing a Masters thesis at Victoria University of Wellington. It centres on the author's belief that Helen Clark, then Prime Minister of New Zealand, would find personal and political rejuvenation if she was to take on a younger lover, and that the ideal person to be that lover is Meros. The author contends that Helen Clark is a woman of intellectual pursuits and that: > "her surroundings of subordinates ... probably leaves her with unfulfilled > desires for a situation where roles are reversed and she can become the > double-double agent of gender deconstructions."Richard Meros, On the > conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover, > cited in; Toby Manhire, A love poem to NZ's PM, The Guardian, June 21, 2005 It covers such subjects as Rogernomics and a bus strike.
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In his review for Allmusic, Jonathan Widran said, "the album swings mercurially from mood, paying strict homage at times but also reminding the listener that centuries have passed and it's time for new twists on the sacred. One's enjoyment will depend solely on his or her passion for tradition, but overall, for the adventurous, Plays Mozart is worth at least one test spin". On All About Jazz Troy Collins said, "Working in klezmer and Dixieland variations, as well as free jazz, psychedelic rock and even subtle electronica, Caine can seem mighty irreverent to the old guard. But he also contributes pieces of unflagging beauty and tenderness, proving his point that all forms (from the sacred to the profane) can exist on the same plane, if only one allows them".Collins, T., All About Jazz Review, February 7, 2007 JazzTimes's reviewer, Andrew Lindemann Malone, observed, "Caine’s playful deconstructions and augmentations deliver tons of delightful surprises".
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Thomson, p. 101 Thomson stated that the heroes in Watchmen almost all share a nihilistic outlook, and that Moore presents this outlook "as the simple, unvarnished truth" to "deconstruct the would-be hero's ultimate motivation, namely, to provide a secular salvation and so attain a mortal immortality".Thomson, p. 108 He wrote that the story "develops its heroes precisely in order to ask us if we would not in fact be better off without heroes".Thomson, p. 109 Thomson added that the story's deconstruction of the hero concept "suggests that perhaps the time for heroes has passed", which he feels distinguishes "this postmodern work" from the deconstructions of the hero in the existentialism movement.Thomson, p. 111 Richard Reynolds states that without any supervillains in the story, the superheroes of Watchmen are forced to confront "more intangible social and moral concerns", adding that this removes the superhero concept from the normal narrative expectations of the genre.
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