Poststructuralism: Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Poststructuralism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which author-hating lit critic and cultural theorist described text as a "multi-dimensional space," and a "tissue of quotations"?
Jean-Luc Picard
Roland Barthes
Michel Foucault
Barbara Johnson
Q. According to Jacques Derrida, what does the imagined "center" do to "the structurality of structure"?
supplements it
makes it a mix tape
neutralizes or reduces it
expands or strengthens it
Q. Jacques Lacan tells us the unconscious is structured like:
a mansion
a tree
Inception
a language
Q. Fill in the poststructuralist blank: Homi Bhabha argues that _____ helps us understand identity politics better than concepts like "otherness" and "difference."
fluidity
hybridity
validity
putridity
Q. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari chose the rhizome as a new botany-born metaphor for thought because:
rhizomes aren't hierarchical
they're kinda nutty
rhizomes don't need sunlight to live
all of the above