Defenders of the narrative. I work backwards from problems we see to the sources of specific ideas underlying them to better understand them https://twitter.com/premodernism/status/918505216147886080 …
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Then people rush to defend PoMo & its significant that it is the honour of PoMo (or intersectionality or gender studies) they want to defend
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Rather than addressing the social reality of how these ideas evolved in academia & got distilled into tenets & mantras in politics &activism
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Which now affect everybody. I can show ample evidence of this and still 'But what about Derrida said in this obscure interview in 1983?'
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I believe that understanding could and would have come about with very little help from postmodernist theory
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Hmm? You think the shift to thinking in this way about social reality being constructed by language wld have arisen in another form?
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We've always had the tendency to think we can create reality with our stories but this is specific development in leftist civil rights ideas
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Yes, but civil rightists’ achievements owe very little to postmodern theory, which has lamely toddled after events and muddied the waters
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I agree.What I will argue in my talk on this was that PoMo ideas traded on the good name of civil rights & presented itself as the next step
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And believed it was. This is relativism + scepticism abt objective truth + paranoia abt language (all old) applied to new phenomenon.
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Where and when are you giving your talk?
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The Battle of Ideas at the Barbican on the 28th of October. 'The Academic Roots of Post-Truth Society' is my panel.
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