A Poststructuralist Critique

By Richard Mather

Devoid of contextual inter-relations,

the Left has relinquished its hegemonic structures

for something more postmodern –

a switch from classical logocentric cultural paradigms

to a pseudo-reality where discourse

is no longer embedded in narratives

of phallocentric meta-history but is now free-floating,

unfixed, deconstructed and thoroughly decentred.