So often 'overstating the problem' means 'focusing on a problem I don't find the most important.' That's fine but I don't think we all need to focus on the same problems. Specialisation is good. Speak to what you know. I know pomo thinking in academia.https://twitter.com/opticon_pan/status/974579333795753984 …
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@Thesadredearth recently described it as 'logocentrism.' I think this encapsulates the problem much more neatly & gets at the reversals which have taken place in our understanding of the role of language and of subjective experience & objective reality.https://areomagazine.com/2018/03/10/the-world-made-flat-the-logocentric-left-and-the-politics-of-provocation/ … -
People have found this difficult to read as it deals with the ideas in their own economy, using their own language. But whereas postmodern approaches seek to complicate, confuse & find aporia, this piece seeks to dig into & define the underlying mechanisms of the symptoms we see
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Ok interesting, I'm following you now so I'll see what comes of your current efforts.
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Great. We have a defence of the university coming out in a few days which you might appreciate.
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The label postmodern isn't helpful because few lay people know (or care) what it means. The label more likely to take hold is 'neo-marxist', which though very debateable requires less explanation to get public traction.
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And that is a problem. You can't understand or oppose the epistemological problem underlying all this if you conflate it with Marxism. I will soon be publishing a piece called 'Why postmodernism is not cultural Marxism.'
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I'm sure it will be interesting, but you'll never get the average voter interested in the the difference between postmodernism and marxism. We'll be hearing the terms neo-marxist and cultural marxism non-stop for quite some time to come, and logically so. It's an easy sell.
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