These concepts are built to explain one of the uses of Deconstruction: the purpose of shredding a centered system so it is stable no more; its pieces, most of them connected to each other, would start to “play” (as we have already seen, to “play” means here that the structure moves in certain degree, although united by the center).

There is no fixed structure, as well as there is no impregnable center; every system is sensitive to be deconstructed, to be exposed by a bricoleur. Nevertheless, these flawed structures, even when they have been dissected, are yet utilizable. Bricolage is the indiscriminate use of defective systems to get a job done, without worrying about its coherence because every system has to tremble anyways. What human beings produce has an inherent inestability that we tend to mend by structuring our life, our minds.

Main idea read at: http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/1997derridaB.html



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