Deconstructive Perspective Research Articles

The Role of Severus Snape in The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling: Deconstruction Perspective

This paper aims to find out the real role of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling. This research is also intended to describe Severus Snape's efforts in defeating Lord Voldemort as well as to figure out the characterization and description of the actions taken by Snape; the writer uses a deconstruction analysis proposed by Jacques Derrida. The image of Severus Snape's character and the relationship between the character's image and the forms of deconstruction are identified by the deconstruction analysis. The method used in this research is the descriptive qualitative method. This research tried to examine the elements of deconstruction of the character Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series of novels, interpreting the new meanings contained implicitly in the novels. The results of the research showed that Severus Snape is described as a character who is rude, arrogant, and cruel. Through the perspective of deconstruction, it was found that Snape has characteristics that are paradoxical to what appears on the surface. He is a caring, helpful, and brave character. In addition, it was found that nine actions of Severus Snape were intended to protect Harry Potter and to defeat Lord Voldemort. The results of the analysis suggested that Severus Snape has a significant role in moving the story. Through his role in the story, Harry Potter can defeat the antagonist or villain in the Harry Potter Series.

New deconstructive perspectives on legal translation

En el presente trabajo, mediante una metodología de investigación conceptual centrada en el desarrollo de argumentos y delimitada por un marco epistemológico de lectura deconstructiva, se explorarán conceptos derridianos como la hospitalidad, el acontecimiento o su pensamiento hauntológico en relación con la traducción jurídica. El objetivo de esta investigación es abrir nuevas vías de reflexión y práctica para la traducción jurídica ante los desafíos que plantea una contemporaneidad donde las asimetrías y fricciones identitarias, lingüísticas, culturales e ideológicas conforman un espacio en el que la traducción juega un papel primordial. Tras el desarrollo teórico del trabajo, se plantearán vías de actuación teórico-práctica que reconfiguran la manera de traducir este tipo de textos; la agencia que tenemos al traducir en este ámbito; la concepción del lenguaje jurídico y el texto original, y que permiten plantear una ética traductora que pueda dar respuesta a los desafíos que nos plantea el presente.

Quoting the Other

In “Toward an Ethic of Discussion,” Jacques Derrida returns to the controversy with Jonathan Searle to clarify his position but above all because he “would have wished to make legible the (philosophical, ethical, political) axiomatics hidden beneath the code of academic discussion.” I intend, in turn, to return to this text in order to find in it not only the conditions of an ethics of academic discussion but also of interpretation in a deconstructive perspective. In “Toward an Ethic of Discussion,” in fact, it is possible to point out the necessity of a certain ethical treatment of the texts. In particular, how can we determine the conditions of an ethical use of quotation against the always possible manipulation of the text that quotation makes possible? I attempt to answer this question claiming that the reading protocol of deconstruction meets these conditions showing us at the same time the ethical conditions of scientific discourse in general, beyond any scientific claim of objectivity.

Evaluación de la adaptabilidad intercultural del inglés y realización de la enseñanza desde la perspectiva de la deconstrucción filosófica

Abstract: Since its emergence, philosophical deconstructionism has been regarded as an unconventional and anti-dogmatic ideology, which has strong reference significance for the reform of English courses in Chinese universities. China is in a critical period of transformation, which requires university English education to fundamentally change traditional educational concepts and carry out comprehensive English teaching reforms. At the same time, issues, such as cross-cultural adaptability and communication in Chinese English teaching, have gradually attracted people’s attention. The academic community in China has been discussing issues related to English education for many years, but few people have placed English education from a philosophical perspective. In response to the issues of insufficient understanding of cultural differences and incomplete cognitive evaluation systems in current English cross-cultural teaching, this article aims to improve people’s cross-cultural abilities through a deconstructive perspective, thereby better understanding cultural differences, respecting multiculturalism, promoting students’ diverse development and deepening English education. Therefore, this article attempts to explore the cross-cultural adaptability of English from the perspective of philosophical deconstruction and how to achieve English teaching reform in China, which has important practical significance for related fields. Through the study of English cross-cultural communication from the perspective of philosophical structure, it can be concluded that applying structuralism to English cross-cultural teaching helps to better understand cultural differences, respect multiculturalism, advocate dialogue and communication, and rebuild a new cognitive system.

A postcolonial autopsy on Javanese identity through Campursari lyrics

Campursari seems to reflect submissive identity, but in deconstructive perspective, the identity is chaotic space. By using postcolonial perspective, this research nails its analysis. The approach used in this research is library research with postcolonial approach. The data are the selected lyrics of Didi Kempot’s songs, they are Cidro, Tatu, Suket Teki, Pamer Bojo, and Sewu Kutho. The technique of data collection is documenting and the technique data analysis is interpretation. The result shows that Didi Kempot’s Campursari songs affirm the submissive way of loving. Cidro represents inferiority, Tatu represents surrender, Suket Teki represents inferiority, Pamer Bojo represents betrayal, and Sewu Kutho represents surrender. Those broken love defines Javanese identity which is seen submissive (dominated), but simultaneously, it also exposes a deconstructive point that loving is releasing, and releasing shows non-dominated side.

Dekonstruksi Ruang Domestik Dalam Film Ki & Ka

This research was conducted with the aim of deconstructing gender roles in the domestic space using a Bollywood film entitled Ki & Ka, with the binary opposition of patriarchal culture that is, deconstructing is carried out by reserving the binary opposition. This research is a type of qualitative descriptive research with the method used in analyzing the data is descriptive analysis with the theoretical perspective of Jaques Derrida's deconstruction. The results of the study show that the deconstruction in the film Ki & Ka has succeeded in making Kabir fulfill his role as the controller of domestic space in his household with Kia.
 Keywords: deconstruction, binary opotition, gender

Convergence Analysis of Inclusive Green Growth in China Based on the Spatial Correlation Network

The purpose of the research is based on the spatial network correlation to explore the convergence path of inclusive green growth. Inclusive green growth is a sustainable development model that emphasizes the integration of economic, social, and ecological systems. Based on the three subsystems of economic growth, social inclusion, and green sustainability, this study structures the indicator system of China’s inclusive green growth and reveals the characteristics of China’s inclusive green growth network using the social network analysis (SNA) method. Then, from the perspective of system deconstruction, this work tests whether and how China’s inclusive green growth converges by constructing a spatial econometric model with different subsystems of spatial correlation networks as spatial weights. The results show that: (1) China’s inclusive green growth level is on the rise in general, showing a spatial distribution pattern of “high in East and West, low in the Central”. (2) China’s inclusive green growth network relationship is significant, and the network system is stable, but there is still room for improvement in network relevance. The spatial correlation of economic growth is relatively closer than other subsystems. (3) China’s inclusive green growth has a remarkable convergence trend in the spatial correlation scenario, and the spatial correlation of social inclusion has the most significant promoting effect on the convergence of the national inclusive green growth; there is a trend of club convergence in the East, Central, and West regions, and the speed of convergence is the fastest in the central region. The spatial correlation of economic growth has a strong promoting effect on the convergence of inclusive green growth in all regions.

Jacques Derrida’s Marxism: An Althusserian Analysis

The on-going research study tends to conduct the textual analysis of Spectres of Marx: The State of Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International (1994) by Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) to discuss and trace the impact of Marxism on him and in turns his responses towards it. He defended Marxism against world capitalism in the post-Cold War “New World Order” after the fall of Communism in 1989. He made a great contribution to the development of Marxist discourse from a deconstructive perspective. Therefore, the research paper focuses on the question, how did Derrida come under the influence of Marxism in his later career? It is mostly concerned with the critical responses of Derrida’s contemporary Marxist critics to Derridean deconstruction in general and to the publication of the book cited-above in particular as well as Derrida’s responses to them. In this way, the study attempts to explore the ways in which Marxism and deconstruction encounters and influences each other. Though it mainly concentrates on Derrida’s text on Marx, his other works also come under discussion. Althusserian Marxist hermeneutics has been employed as the theoretical and analytical framework in this textual study.

Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends

Although China's daily intercity mobility patterns have received growing academic attention with the availability and popularity of data with location information from the lens of time and behavioural geographies, little interpretative evidence has been reached on monthly and annual mobility patterns and dynamics considering the influence of the floating population. Using 3-year big data, this paper provides a comprehensive framework to decode China's intercity mobility using machine learning-based city classification techniques and econometric analysis. Cities are classified into four types according to monthly fluctuations and year-round mobility trends: central cities, tourist and hub cities, labour export cities, and less-mobility cities. Central cities are located in major urban agglomerations, while tourist and hub cities are sparsely distributed nationwide. There is also a north-south divide pattern where labour export cities cover areas of central and southern regions, and less-mobility cities are mainly located in northern and northeastern regions. The econometric analysis results reveal the predominant role of the long-term floating population in all mobility indexes and the different impacts of short-term leisure and business trips and transportation facilities. Furthermore, moderating effects of city types and city change paths are detected. The findings provide significant implications for rethinking and decoding intercity mobility from a typological and deconstructive perspective.

A Close Reading of the Imitation Game

This essay delves into Alan Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", examining the entrenched the binary opposition between human and machine. Through deconstruction, the essay seeks to reveal and analyze the deeper insights inherent in Turing's work. Of particular significance is Turing's equivalence between language and thought, particularly in the context of the imitation game. Within the grammatological realm of Turing's text, writing and mechanism are nearly interchangeable, representing the intersection of humans and machines. By adopting a deconstructive perspective, the essay illuminates the philosophical origins of the artificial intelligence debates and their implications for our understanding of human existence.

Exploring the Turkish Translations of Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” from the Perspective of Deconstruction and Hermeneutics

In translation studies, poetry has mostly been discussed from the perspective of untranslatability due to a variety of reasons. One of these reasons is the subjective and personal nature of poetry: poems are considered to be specific to their creators, who incorporate much from their lives into their creations. Untranslatability of poetry brings to the fore the obsolete notion that the source text is superior to the target text. It is, therefore, necessary to disentangle the concept of untranslatability from the translation studies on poetry. To do so, this study concentrates on a highly personal example of poetry, i.e., the Confessional poet Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus” (1965) and its Turkish translations by Yusuf Eradam (2014/2020) and Nurten Uyar (2015), and seeks to explore the two translators’ subjective interpretations of the death/suicide theme specific to Plath’s poetry. In doing so, figures of speech related to the overall theme of death/suicide, and specific words and phrases are studied comparatively from the perspective of deconstruction and hermeneutics. The aim is to focus on how each translator interpreted the aforementioned elements rather than whether or not they transported these elements accurately and well. In this way, the superiority of the original over translation, as well as untranslatability of poetry, are deconstructed in harmony with the theoretical framework of this study. In conclusion, it is argued that both translators indeed translated the personal content of the poem in question through a process of subjective interpretation, which resulted in target texts that have their own peculiarities but at the same time, are similar to the source text.

Analysis of The Story of Your Life From the Perspective of Deconstruction

The growth of Western science fiction steadily slowed down after the last century’s “Golden Age”, but the emergence of Chinese-American science fiction writers has given the genre fresh life. This study investigates the deconstruction of Anti-Logocentrism and binary oppositions in the famous science fiction The Story Of Your Life by Chinese American author Ted Chiang applying Derrida’s deconstructionist theories as a theoretical framework. First, the paper analyses the traditional relationship between the self and others in terms of the attitude toward aliens; the author’s deconstruction of the conventional male-female interaction is then analyzed in light of the work’s depiction of the heroine, and the author’s analysis of the conventional cause-and-effect relationship follows. Based on above, the paper reveals Ted Chiang’s intention to create a just and peaceful society in the book, providing readers with a fresh perspective on how to understand it.

The medieval Hero and anti-hero in one and the same person: Huon de Bordeaux deconstructive perspectives on medieval literature

The medieval Hero and anti-hero in one and the same person: Huon de Bordeaux deconstructive perspectives on medieval literature

Another decolonial approach is possible: international studies in an antiblack world

This article analyses important trends in contemporary decolonial approaches in the field of international studies and, drawing on recent work in critical Black studies, seeks to highlight some of the limitations in their assumptions. Anthropologically informed decolonial approaches argue for a pluriversal approach, where multiple ‘worlds’ can coexist, whilst sociologically grounded critiques seek to develop the field of international studies through adding social and historical depth to our understanding of power and challenging racial hierarchies. Both these forms of decolonial argument aim to pluralise and expand understandings, drawing in marginalised and excluded outsiders, in a bid to repair and revitalise international studies. However, we argue that a third approach, starting from the assumption of an antiblack world, raises important questions for decolonial study. Drawing from critical Black studies, we suggest that the dominant forms of decolonial critique may not adequately address the liberal modernist assumptions underpinning the field of international study. If another decolonial approach is possible it will bring a disruptive and deconstructive perspective, one that seeks to avoid inadvertently strengthening the antiblack foundations of the field.

Why “Post-colonialism” for Colonized and “Renaissance” for Colonizers? A Comparative Analysis of Deconstruction and Postcolonialism

The research aims to analyze postcolonial texts from the perspective of deconstruction. It is a theory that aims to seek the differences and hidden motives of any text. Jacques Derrida has given the idea of “Deconstruction” to uncover the hidden realities of the texts. The theory of “Deconstruction” is applied in the context of postcolonialism to explain the fact of subservience even after decolonization. The study applies the qualitative method with Belsey approach of “Thematic Content Analysis”. The study is significant because it negates the hegemony of colonizers after decolonization and it describes the hidden tactics of the term: postcolonialism.

Why “Post-colonialism” for Colonized and “Renaissance” for Colonizers? A Comparative Analysis of Deconstruction and Postcolonialism

The research aims to analyze postcolonial texts from the perspective of deconstruction. It is a theory that aims to seek the differences and hidden motives of any text. Jacques Derrida has given the idea of “Deconstruction” to uncover the hidden realities of the texts. The theory of “Deconstruction” is applied in the context of postcolonialism to explain the fact of subservience even after decolonization. The study applies the qualitative method with Belsey approach of “Thematic Content Analysis”. The study is significant because it negates the hegemony of colonizers after decolonization and it describes the hidden tactics of the term: postcolonialism.

Judicialização da política e politização do direito: a rota estruturante da democracia pluralista e universalista enquanto um sistema público de direito

The paper discusses the questions of judicialization of politics and politicization of law having as background the institutional and social consolidation of a fascist perspective characterized as anti-systemic, anti-institutional, anti-juridical and infralegal juridical-political personalism, which is streamlined by the implosion of judiciary from inside to outside exactly by politicization of law, with its direct link to the fratricide political-partisan war in the sphere of the political system. From this starting point, we will reconstruct the normative-institutional-procedural fundaments proper to the pluralist and universalist democracy constituted as a public system of law, which are: the original correlation and the concomitant emergence of human rights and law; the ontogenetic primacy, differentiation, autonomy, self-referentiality and overposition of law regarding to politics and moral, as well as the subsidiarity of politics and moral to law; the separation, autonomy, self-subsistence and overposition of judiciary in relation to political system; the systemic, systematic, procedural, mediated, instantial, progressive, neutral and apolitical-depoliticized condition of judiciary and political system; the strong systemic ideal of institutionality, legality, technicality, formality and depersonalization; the axiological posture of impartiality, impersonality, neutrality and apoliticity-depoliticization by judiciary and political system. These fundaments have the goal of strengthening the self-reflexive, self-controlled and self-corrective institutional production of the universality in/as/by legality and, in this sense, they implicate in the constitution of an anti-fascist, anti-totalitarian, non-fundamentalist and anti-racist democratic rule of law which fights against both anti-systemic, anti-institucional, anti-juridical and infralegal juridical-political personalism, as the politicization, partisanship and reification of law, ensuring the centrality of human rights, of pluralism, of legal process and of the law as defining principle, procedure, language and symbol of the own pluralist and universalist democracy constituted as a public system of law. Now, the reconstruction of these fundaments is a very urgent matter in order to solidify theoretically and normatively a perspective of facing and deconstruction of the fascism hegemonic institutionally and socially. &nbsp

Deconstrucción del “malestar en/de/por la Soberanía” y su papel en una crítica de la democracia representativa

En el presente trabajo se valora la impronta de la perspectiva deconstructiva del mal en/de/por la soberanía, en la obra de Jaques Derrida, para una crítica anti-idolátrica de la democracia. Parte del estudio crítico de dos tradiciones de fundamentación contemporánea de la democracia representativa. El examen de la propuesta de democracia deliberativa de Habermas y de la concepción de radicalización de la democracia de Ernesto Laclau, las cuales permiten evidenciar la reproducción del proceso de formalización de la democracia. Ambas critican al paradigma del conflicto material de clases de origen marxista y responden con una comprensión comunicativa que parte de la centralidad del lenguaje y el discurso como práctica subjetiva consensual. A partir de la reducción del proceso subjetivo a la anterioridad preminente del discurso, la democracia deja de comprender las condiciones materiales de reproducción del sujeto corporal. Marco ante el cual valoramos el papel de la crítica al malestar de la soberanía presente en la obra de Jaques Derrida. El pensamiento derridiano en torno al Malestar de Soberanía critica la reducción de la diferencia desde una constelación categorial y metódica que implica el reconocimiento del conflicto irreductible que representa la emergencia contingencial del otro. La espectralidad como intuición comprensiva permite la afirmación de la responsabilidad ética, como base de toda posición gnoseológica, que pretenda dar condición de posibilidad a un discurso verdadero. Posición que resguarda la posibilidad transformadora del ejercicio de la soberanía a partir de develar sus procesos de represión subjetiva. Esta constelación categorial es sustantiva a una crítica de la reducción de la democracia en tanto ejercicio soberano.

DECONSTRUCTIONIST TRANSLATION THEORY: VISIBILITY OF DIFFÉRANCE

The paper focuses on the challenge deconstructivist theory constitutes for translation via an analysis of Derrida’s theory that revised not only the «violent hierarchy» of the ‘original – translation’ but also the keystones of translatability: equivalency, adequacy, formal correlation, etc., arguing that translation, in the conventional use of the term, is impossible. From the perspective of deconstruction it is viewed only as a powerful tool in unveiling the plurality of the text’s meaning that makes invisible différance visible. Untranslatability in Derrida’s use of the term does not imply that translators should not translate. It simply implies that it is impossible to produce the plurality of the source text in a translation. Derrrida, Paul de Man, Foucault, Jonathan Culler, J. Hillis Miller et al. criticize the traditional views of translation by eliminating equivalence from the purpose of the translation. The focus is on the complex set of relations between the two texts. The article investigates the issue providing explanations for new approaches to translational phenomena through discussion of Derridian ideas on the variation of meanings advocated in his resonant article «Des Tours de Babel». Derrida redefines translation, calling into question any approach as «reproduction», suggesting that translation can be viewed only as deferring the original text without any possibility to grasp what the original text aimed to tell. He argues that deconstruction and translation are phenomena of the same order and one cannot talk about the reproduction of what does not exist. Rather, there is a reason to talk about «unrepresentability.» The deconstructivists gave a fundamentally different dimension to the old translation problem, casting doubt on traditional theories, demonstrating the illusory nature of any attempt to find the meaning of how to read, interpret or translate.

A New Method for Optimizing the Cabin Layout of Manned Submersibles

In order to reduce the misoperation of submersible pilots in the complex environment of deep sea and improve human reliability, it is a very important method to optimize the cabin space of manned submersible. In this paper, manned submersible Jiaolong is taken as an example to describe the breakthrough of traditional modes for optimizing the cabin layout of manned submersible with an aesthetic perspective of deconstruction and reconstruction thinking; the layout is optimized based on deconstruction and reconstruction from the cultural perspective of interdisciplinary. The experimental results show that the layout of manned submersible cabin is optimized by combining the theory of deconstruction and reconstruction aesthetics and human factors engineering, and the feasibility and effectiveness of this method are verified by multiobjective genetic algorithm. Deconstruction and reconfiguration layout optimization improves the human reliability of divers. It is a new method for the optimization of manned submersible cabin layout and also provides a reference for studies on the layout of similar small space.