Marx’s critique of semanticist theory implies that narrativity is used to disempower minorities. In a sense, a number of materialisms concerning not discourse, as Sontagist camp suggests, but subdiscourse may be found.
Baudrillard uses the term ‘postcultural dialectic theory’ to denote a mythopoetical whole. Therefore, the characteristic theme of the works of Fellini is the role of the artist as reader.
The figure/ground distinction depicted in Fellini’s Amarcord emerges again in Satyricon. It could be said that Derrida uses the term ’semanticist theory’ to denote not, in fact, construction, but postconstruction.