Agreed. That's why I refer to it as the 'Postmodern Critique'. To me it is just a useful tool in certain circumstances, one that remains useful even to those of us who would not identify with the overall project as such.
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Replying to @ponponpontifex @GodDoesnt
I'm willing to accept that. I'm mainly speaking about it because I think there are a lot of problematic interpretations (on all sides) that are threatening to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
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Replying to @alangnixon @GodDoesnt
What is the baby? What does postmodernism as a critical analysis do better than other critical analyses?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
I think we are arguing at different levels or perhaps just using different terminology. What are the other critical analysis forms you are wanting me to compare? (genuinely just trying to address the right ideas)
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Replying to @alangnixon @GodDoesnt
It depends on the subject. Science is the best critical method in many cases, empirical data gathering in others, liberal ethics for ethical arguments. I am not sure postmodernism provides anything that isn't provided better elsewhere.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
Do any of these critical methods address language games, meta-narratives or discourses (technical def)? (I'm wanting to listen and learn). I find these most useful in postmodern ideas & I'm not sure if any of the three critical methods you mention actually deal with these issues
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Replying to @alangnixon @GodDoesnt
It depends on what they are. There is certainly much linguistic work done, some of it branching off in other directions from Saussure and much breaking down of various narratives from a number of perspectives. PoMo looks at discourse in one way but nearly everything looks at it.
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eg, postmodernism critiqued religious metanarratives but so did science. I think science did it better. Marxism can be critiqued as a metanarrative but rigorous statistical economics might work better. in the case of science, from Sokal & Bricmontpic.twitter.com/4TBk1ZOh5F
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