Working in the Twilight of Foundationalism

Pick up any good postfeminist treatise (St Pierre & Pillow, (2000), 'Working the Ruins', Routledge) and you'll find the authors waving farewell to foundationalism and girding themselves to working through the crisis of representation and legitimation. Such texts bite a half-moon clean out of centred, signifying and stable nomotheses. Like a wood struggling through a wood, the loin-girding of these texts gives me hope that there is a cause left to fight which is the cause of unpacking: of margins, of self, of the triumph of narrative cohesion, of modernism and progress, of technonarcicism, of uncritical pedagogy, of management orthodoxy: and, importantly, of the elitist discourse of the poststructuralism itself. The engines of deconstruction are set. Fighting talk indeed!