No, criticisms of PoMo aren't either academic or reactionary. Reasonable people w/out an academic background in it can see &discuss problemshttps://twitter.com/ChrisDoveton/status/878239600409362432 …
The term is even older but I'm talking about a certain shift in theory coming out of France.
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Well actually Diogenes was the first postmodernist - deconstructed Plato then later was anti-imperialist SJW. I just love correcting ppl!
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But the idea that the modern period was on the way out...
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Based largely on a language game, ie the "periodization" story. Once upon a time there was a golden age, boys and girls...
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Hmm? PoMos don't tend to think this, do they?
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A sceptic might even claim periods are just authorial fictions to sell books: "the age of anxiety", "the end of history", " belle epoque"..
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Historians claim this. We break things up artificially in order to analyse them. There's always much more continuity.
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