That the idea we create our own meaning of words & they're just as valid as the author's has become twisted & used to serve political ends
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Wasn't intended to pin the reader's interpretation on the author & blame him for it. That's part of the politicisation of these ideas.
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Is this a new phenomenon? In your opinion. Or has that always been the way ideas are politicized?
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Well, yes. If ideas travel out from academia & into activism, they become much more moralistic & have in-groups and out-groups.
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But in this case, that happened within academia too & that's quite worrying. The critical theory that drew on PoMo ideas were political.
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Yes - that's indicative of wider degradation of academic culture
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