Structuralism

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"Post structuralism" is more interesting to me, particularly the move away from binary oppositions, and their increased reliance on semiotics beyond language. De Saussure's work is influential to all of it.

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Urgh.
The state of continental "philosophy" is really sad.

What exactly is your problem with it?

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Much of it has to do with cultural critiques, and theory, although analytic philosophy's still dealt with. I have a hard time believing it's all sophistry, some of it, maybe. If there's one thing post-structuralists can be accused of, it's obscurantism, and inflated jargon, but it's not as if it's a legion of snake oil salesmen.

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Delueze is a particularly important modern philosopher, (I hate to use the term "Post-modern") but it can be daunting to wrap your head around some of his ideas for lack of clearly defined terminology. Lacan suffers from this, but it's not just them, Heidegger's writing is tough, also. Delueze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" is not as wrought.

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In the first place, singularities-events correspond to heterogeneous
series which are organized into a system which is neither stable nor
unstable, but rather 'metastable', endowed with a potential energy
wherein the differences between series are distributed . . . . In the
second place, singularities possess a process of auto-unification,
always mobile and displaced to the extent that a paradoxical element
traverses the series and makes them resonate, enveloping the
corresponding singular points in a single aleatory point and all the
emissions, all dice throws, in a single cast."

Ah, yes. An example of "The Theory".

I often stared at that and wondered what the hell it meant. Then I realized it probably something banal like "Damn, forgot to check the pockets of my trousers before putting them in the wash. I had 100 francs in there."

It's out of context considerably, but it could apply to the social. Events that are metastable are in stasis, for however long, even if you consider the heterogeneous or "mixed" circumstances that create them. Say an organization, the structure of it, or even a country with a stable political environment.  The potential energy of a system, if we're looking at the social, could be the varieties of change that could occur in a given time period overall, "the distribution" Deleuze is talking about.

The second part, "singularities  possess[ing] a process of auto-unification", could mean the characteristic of events, or disparate elements that come together, for instance, a revolution, as a whole, the single aleatory (chance) point to create a new condition.

The trouble is the terminology. In order to express himself exactly how he needs to, the terminology is extremely focused, and if it's not defined, it'll make no sense. It doesn't help the situation that many terms are taken from the natural sciences.