Derrida's bricolage

Derrida and Levi Strauss call the 2nd method “bricolage” and the person that does it a “bricoleur”. This is somebody who doesn’t care about the purity or stability of the system he/she uses, but rather uses what’s there to get a particular job done. The bricoleur, says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses "the means at hand," that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition around him, those which are already there, which had not been especially conceived with an eye to the operation for which they are to be used and to which one tries by trial and error to adapt them, not hesitating to change them whenever it appears necessary, or to try several of them at once, even if their form and their origin are heterogeneous -- and so forth. There is therefore a critique of language in the form of bricolage, and it has even been possible to say that bricolage is the critical language itself. Bricolage is mythopoetic, not rational; it’s more like play than like system.