Intersectionality, critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory etc. The new wave of theorists said that PoMo was great for showing how everything was socially constructed in discourse but you have to accept that some kind of reality exists or you can't do anything.
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...or they are a little embarrassed about the excesses of postmodernism & want to distance themselves from it and claim they're doing something else now but they have actually internalised the key ideas abt discourses, cultural constructivism, knowledge and reason.
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I have got away from the original topic which was 'does this affect literary criticism today' and onto 'does this affect society today' because the latter is rather more important. It affects both tho.
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Try bringing an empirical or scientific approach to bear on literary criticism in the realms of identity, power balance, individuality, knowledge and see how well it goes down. It doesn't. This book by
@jonathangottsch is excellent on that. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gottschall-Jonathan-Literature-Humanities-Paperback/dp/B01DHEV1ZS/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1511852677&sr=8-8&keywords=jonathan+Gottschall …Show this thread -
Academics who take issue with critics of postmodernism & say we are criticising a boogeyman need to look at what we are actually criticising and be honest about whether postmodernism & its evolution through critical theory & into activism had anything to do with it.
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Areo will soon be publishing an extended version of my statement on this for the Battle of Ideas panel - The Academic Origins of Post-Truth Society. It explains better.
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But this is not wrong: https://twitter.com/AaronRHanlon/status/935164685820878848 … People are more aware of postmodernism now in the Trump/Brexit era because its broken the bounds of academia and caused significant damage to the left thereby influencing the surge to the right.
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It's not just annoying ppl in the humanities who'd like to be more rigorous & evidence-based. It evolved & entered leftist social conscience trading on the good name of the civil rights movement, feminism & Gay Pride & catastrophically undermined it.
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So yes, rightists will name it & attack it as all that is wrong with the left but they often misidentify it as an expansion of Marxism (rather than just as a replacement for Marxism) to conflate the two enemies - the identitarian left & economic left.
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Sometimes this is an ideologically-motivated conflation & to some extent it's excusable because anti-capitalism noises are still being made by the PoMo left but they're not very convincing & the surge of working class voters to the right demonstrates this. Their party forgot them
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But leftists like me attack postmodernism too because we'd actually like to fix the problem and be electable by reasonable people again, please.
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Bloody hell. I only got up to go to the loo but made the mistake of checking Twitter and found
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Likewise, academics who think Marxism is dead are overlooking the odd hybrids in which it’s deeply entwined. Antifa is the purest example. Fused with identity politics and adopting some anarchist bits as cover, Antifa remains essentially a Marxist movement.
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