Deconstruction

Gere, Charlie (2026) Deconstruction. In: The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art :. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781474280730 (In Press)

Abstract

The emergence of digital technology is transforming our culture in ways that are hard to grasp. New media art and Deconstruction can both be considered as responses to the challenges of computerization and digital technology. The writings of Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler and others connected with Deconstruction offer the most profound engagement with questions of technicity that are particularly pertinent to our current technologized condition, as does art involving new forms of media, networks and technologies. ‘Deconstruction’ in this context refers to the philosophical practice of the close reading of texts to reveal their internal structures and contradictions, exemplified in much of Derrida’s work. ‘Technicity’ is the term for how there is nothing about the human that is not always already technical