The Importance of Language

I really liked the deconstruction chapter in Beginning Theory by Barry, since the methods of how to do deconstruction and the explanation of what it is is very clear and concise. On page 65, it mentions that post structuralism "distrusts the very notion of reason, and the idea of the human being as an idependent entity, preffering the notion of the "dissolved' or 'constructed' subject, whereby what we may think of as the individual is really a product of social and linguistic forces."

Facebook

Facebook seems to construct a person's identity by the comments someone writes, the pictures they post, and the experiences they depict. Therefore, you do not need a physical person to represent who you are. You are constructed by language. That's how others can know you without ever really meeting you.

Being put this way, does it seem like structuralism and reader response criticism are influenced by this theory? He does post structuralism differ? Post structuralism seems to me to go a little further outside the text. The author's intentions do not matter and there's no intent to interpret the text, for post structuralists "seek to show that the text is characterized by disunity rather than unity" (75). The goal is more to understand the inner workings of it based on language (like hermeneutic, semantic, etc in structuralism).