Poovey argued that deconstructive techniques could therefore be used as a toolbox to pull things accepted as true apart but there still needs to be some pragmatism to address things happening in the world. But what was happening in the world just got a lot more interpretative.
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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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If we trace subjectivism back even further we find pomo's common philosophical root with fascism: Nietzsche's perspectivism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivism …
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