I am not against what you are trying to do but do not find the article convincing regarding Foucault. Haven't studied Derrida.
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You have one inaccurate quote in first Foucault segment. Foucault's ideas of discourse and power apply strongly to current SJW situation.
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I mean, Inacc. quote from a critic of his. Foucault also writing before the introduction of term Postmodernism.
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Replying to @herewardwakeful @HPluckrose
Postmodern applied in first instances to aesthetics of mixed genre architecture, in 1950s but retrospectively to strains in art and lit.
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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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Replying to @HPluckrose @herewardwakeful
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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