When I asked what was not accessible (because I felt all terms were explained and the language was not generally academic) I was told...
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...that working class people don't talk about modernity, Enlightenment and postmodernism. Two main problems with this.
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1) They do. The conversation about modern values and PoMo nonsense spans all classes. 2) Those things are essential to the piece.
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There are many people of all classes who don't care about these ideas & therefore can read other things. Writing abt them is not classist.
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I've skimmed over about the first third and broadly agree with what you say. I'm working class, no college degree, and left school at 16...
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It's neither hard to understand nor irrelevant to working class people, is it?
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It's not hard to understand. It is relevant to the working class, because it's normally the middle class filling the ranks of the pre and
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post modernists with the post modernist left treating us as too stupid to understand, and the pre modernist right appealing to our natural
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Check your literacy privilege?
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Apparently, its not that. It's that working class people don't think in 'isms.' Bollocks.
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Sorry for the rudeness but I have read some of Foucault and other post-modernist's work, thankfully without translation, and if you want to
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Scold writers for an obsessively opaque and elitist style of writing and discourse, it's not you.
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Bigotry of low expectations, init?
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Hi. Where can I read it?
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