OK! This piece which many of you have found difficult and some of you have become quite annoyed with. It addresses postmodern ideas in its own language but whereas postmodernism seeks to complicate & confuse, this piece seeks to show the workings. 1 of many.https://twitter.com/thesadredearth/status/972840550717181952 …
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"A double challenge to liberal democrats is both to reject the right in full voice, yet make clear their profound separateness from the far left... They must fully recognize how their progressivism differs from the ever-accumulating transformative regimes of the far left"
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So, that (somewhat cut) is clear enough. The aim here is to distinguish a liberal desire for progress from the ideological mess on the far-left. To do so, requires understanding said ideological mess.
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"Many people have come to identify a necessary disambiguating idea for this recognition as that of postmodernism." Yes, that would be me. "I believe a deeper understanding — the more essential, yet particular and activating difference — can be found in “logocentrism.”" Do go on.
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So, logocentrism is commonly understood to be the idea that language reliably refers to what is out there. Derrida, particularly, rejected this. Everything is a text and every understanding of a text is an interpretation.
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Adler argues that a better understanding of 'logocentrism' is a more literal breakdown of the word. Making language the centre and reality secondary to that. He says that this is what the New New left is doing & understanding this makes so much else clear.
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I have argued that it is essential to understanding so much of what seems bewilderingly nuts on the postmodern left to understand the degree to which language (discourses) are understood to construct reality. We cannot get anywhere if we miss this vital part of the puzzle.
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This is essentially the same point but Adler breaks it down and pinpoints the reversal that has happened much more distinctly and how profound an epistemological shift this is.
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"...we might claim that the far left bookoisie cannot think without continually revising the means of thinking, the instruments of knowledge production. Epistemology is ontology. To know is to be, and how you know is how you be."
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Ok so is “epistemology is ontology” Adler’s actual claim?
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