Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

Deconstructionists believe. that close analysis reduces any text novel
statute religious. work to meaningless blather. The popular response to.
deconstruction has always been that it's counterintuitive that no. one
reads that way that it lacks common sense.. That will change. Like
reading or breathing web browsing itself is. agnostic with respect to
politics and culture. Unlike reading or. breathing however surfing
mimics a postmodern deconstructionist. perspective by undermining the
authority of texts. Anyone who has. spent a lot of time online
particularly the very young will find. themselves thinking about content
articles texts pictures in. ways that would be familiar to any
deconstructionist critic. And a. community of citizens who think like
Jacques Derrida will not be a. particularly conservative one.. HTML
hyperlinks frames and metatags are the essential building. blocks of the
web. They combine to create a highly associative. endlessly referential
and contingent environment that provides an. expanse of information at
the same time that it subverts any claim to. authority since another view
is just a click away.. These basic technical tools are similar to
deconstructionist. analytical tools. Hypertext markup language (HTML)
provides graphic. display instructions to the web browser. Codes
control the. presentation of each web page including pictures colors
fonts and. the organization of text. Without HTML a web browser
would show a. continuous scroll of plain text. Although HTML is
normally. invisible the viewer can select a viewing option that exposes
the. program codes. With HTML visible the structure of each web page
is. laid bare like a theater with transparent curtains and sets so the.
lighting crew scaffolding director and actors in the wings were all.
visible. Hyperlinks which often appear in underlined blue text. provide
the essential connectivity of the web enabling the user to. jump from
one page to another a sort of black hole through which a. viewer can
jump in and emerge in another place. Framing divides a. web site into
separate windows each displayed in a separate part of. the screen and
independently functional. Hyperlinks connect each. frame allowing the
user to move among screens without leaving the. site. Search engines
organize information on the web as well while. description of and
hyperlink to a list of sites ranked by likely. relevance. In many cases the
web page communicates to the search. engine through metatags which
are encoded in the HTML and usually. consist of key words that
provide an associative description of the. site itself.. A person engages
the web in much the same way that a. deconstructionist critic
approaches a text. Deconstruction which. denotes a process rather than
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