It's always always true to say of nearly any theorist and any essay using their work 'but it's much more complex than this.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Making broader judgements on a theorist's oeuvre is perfectly legitimate, but I feel many do so without yet knowing it well enough
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Replying to @ianpacemain
I'll leave you to defend their honour. I'm more focused on postmodernism in practice. Wrote this comment on criticism of my piece.pic.twitter.com/Iy5YKv39PX
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That is where I disagree somewhat. I think that type of identity politics has some equally strong roots elsewhere.
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Replying to @ianpacemain
In human nature. But theoretical bases for epistemic relativity & identity politics & cultural constructivism come from academic left
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Identity politics massively relates to C18-19 nationalism, I would say. And other forms of post-Enlightenment disenchantment with universals
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Replying to @ianpacemain
It relates to almost everything. Its what we humans do. But the postmodern left is not nationalist.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I disagree fundamentally - the postmodern left comes with a virulent strain of Anglo-American nationalism and triumphalism.
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Replying to @ianpacemain @HPluckrose
The central role of the collective unit in conditioning and limiting the individual, and the irreconcilability of different collectives....
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Replying to @ianpacemain @HPluckrose
....is a legacy of nationalism, which identity politics picks up, often in a crude form, and applies it to different demarcations.
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OK. Why don't you write something about this so I understand it?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I have had a big article on postmodernism (in musical context) brewing for a while. I argue for it as a most virulent form of neo-liberalism
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