Talk:Post-structuralism
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OT: Does the links-as-bulleted-list phenomenon bug anyone else? It seems to me to waste a lot of space. Comma-separated lists can look messy though. Anyone come up with any other solutions? :Seth Mahoney 18:11, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- (continue discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style) I also think using bulleted lists for "see also" links wastes screen space and requires too much scrolling. We could get a higher information density, which is almost always a good thing, by running them together in lines. Commas don't provide enough separation; how about slashes, pipes, or dashes? I like dashes best, e.g.
- See also: Thing one -- Another reference -- A third reference
- Higher information density is almost never a good thing when displaying it— only when storing it. --Blainster 18:20, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
difficulty understanding this
Maybe if this was a university thesis paper on post-structuralism, I would commend this post for being superior in writing style; however, I'm just trying to *understand* post-structuralism, and the superfluous vocabulary which is used is driving me nuts. Sentences such as, "...are most clearly distinct from structuralist predecessors in their rejection of ST. reductivist methodology..." I have no idea what the reductivist methodology is, and I already got through reading and understanding structuralist criticism. Also, I would like to know how structuralists "claim to be a critical metalanguage."
Just looking over this again I'd have to say that, all in all, I think this could be better written to be clearer to the layman. Yes, that means the writer is superior to us all intellectually...I'm fine with that. I just want to understand what he's saying. This article doesn't help me attain any comprehension of post-structuralism. Which is frustrating.
Maybe once I have this under my belt I'll post my own version and see if it's any better; but I really have a little ways until that is possible still.
I agree that it is difficult to understand. I think the concept like this should be explained at atleat two different intellect levels.
