Reconstructing Existentialism?

"Existentialism is a renewable resource... Like all resources, existentialism is vulnerable to shifting conditions." - @doctormickey

What are the semiotic and material conditions for the renewal of existentialism as an ecologically responsive mode of cognition? Everything from YouTube to that moldy Edgar Allen Poe collection buried in the basement of a neighbourhood bookstore, from the flows of monetary funding between educational institutions to the electric infrastructures that allow them provide "conditionals" where new configurations of identity and reference can be established. Existentialism is a discourse full of possibility to ask the big questions about self and experience that can lead directly to deeper considerations of human existence in a dynamical world. There is much to be hypermined in existentialism.  

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In the Introduction to the SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought David Ray Griffin writes that one can describe the postmodernism of process thinking as "revisionary, constructive, or perhaps best - reconstructive", as opposes to a "deconstructive, relativistic, or eliminative postmodernism". For Griffin, deconstructive postmodernism entails an "antiworldview" that eliminates modernist concepts and suppositions while negating the very possibility of a consistent worldview. In contrast, reconstructive postmodernism entails a reconstruction of our worldview rather than its complete destruction or elimination.

As Sam Mickey writes:

"While it may be the case that the reconstructive postmodernism of Whitehead or other process thinkers is opposed to deconstructiye postmodernism, this opposition does not properly account for the revisionary elements of deconstruction (a term coined by Derrida) or French poststructuralism in general. Deconstruction and poststructuralism are significantly different from any of the other philosophies grouped under the name "deconstructive postmodernism." Rather than being merely eliminative, poststructuralists express many ideas that are analogous or complementary to revisionary ideas expressed by Whitehead and other process thinkers.  

Accordingly, in her introduction to Process and Difference - a collection of essays about poststructuralist and cosmological postmodernisms - Catherine Keller reflects on the disputed nature of these terms as she suggests that Griffins account of deconstructive postmodernism "suffers from a 'fallacy of misplaced opposition'" (3). Philosophers like Deleuze and Derrida are not opposed to reconstructive and revisionary efforts such as those inspired by process thinkers, nor do poststructuralists seek to destroy science or to eliminate the possibility of a consistent worldview."

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Derrida always argued that "deconstruction" was not to be limited to the "negative or destructuring forms" with which it is often associated. Derrida argued that deconstruction is a process that involves an affirmation that calls for something new and wholly unforeseen: "Deconstruction is inventive or it is nothing at all" (Derrida, "Psyche", p.43).