Poststructuralism rejects the modernist bond between signified and signifier.

Evidence

Whereas modernists had presupposed that there was a tight and identifiable relation between what was being said (the signified or ‘message’) and how it was being said (the signifier or ‘medium’), poststructuralist thinking sees these as ‘continually breaking apart and re-attaching in new combinations.’ — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 340

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the technical vocabulary (signified/signifier, poststructuralist breaking) used throughout the survey.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodernism’s rejection of unified representation leads logically to pragmatic localism. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 353

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism’s rejection of unified representation leads logically to pragmatic localism. #expands (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 353