Deconstruction Records was a record label based in the United Kingdom and was noted for its cutting-edge, contemporary dance music. Among the artists to record for the company were M People and Kylie Minogue.
Deconstruction's central concern is a radical critique of the Enlightenment project and of metaphysics, including in particular the founding texts by such philosophers as Plato, Rousseau, and Husserl, but also other sorts of texts, including literature.
Deconstruction identifies in the Western philosophical tradition a "metaphysics of presence" (also known as logocentrism or sometimes phallogocentrism) which holds that speech-thought (the logos) is a privileged, ideal, and self-present entity, through which all discourse and meaning are derived.
Deconstructive writers generally disagree that deconstruction is a denial of the existence of meaning and authorial intentionality.
Deconstructive readings have been somewhat controversial both in academia, where they have been accused of being nihilistic, parasitic, and silly, and in the popular press, where they are often seized upon as a sign that academia had become out of touch with reality.
The question of whether deconstruction really "means something" was explored by an experiment conducted by Alan Sokal, a liberal-modernist physicist who published an article in a leading (though not peer-reviewed) journal using some of the language, vocabulary, and rhetorical devices of deconstruction, but which he deliberately designed to be what he considered "self-indulgent nonsense".
Deconstructive writers generally disagree that deconstruction is a destruction of all meaning and authorial intentionality.
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