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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

    Lol. Someone knows I am ignorant about postmodernism because they 'literally study it at university.' We nearly all had to study it at university. That's the problem. Some of us took it further.

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      2. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly Apr 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I read almost all of Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, Lacan, etc in college. It's what turned me into a scientist, a realist, a skeptic, and a libertarian.

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      3. anthony‏ @anztav72 Apr 2
        Replying to @primalpoly @HPluckrose

        When I first got to college I wasn't really aware of post-mod, theory, etc. But I quickly learned older, English language scholarship usually published by Oxford or Cambridge U Press were more informative and helpful. I was instinctively shying away from the gibberish.

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      2. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia Apr 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I had to teach it!

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      3. Stephen Henstock‏ @HenstockStephen Apr 2
        Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose

        Did you wink a lot when saying such delightfully self-contradicting quotes as, “Schools serve the same social functions as prisons & mental institutions- to define, classify, control, & regulate people.” from Foucault whose words have widely been used to control student thinking?

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      4. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia Apr 2
        Replying to @HenstockStephen @HPluckrose

        Actually I liked the panopticon! My pet hate: Iragaray.

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      5. Stephen Henstock‏ @HenstockStephen Apr 2
        Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose

        "Irigaray draws upon Karl Marx’s theory of capital and commodities to claim that women are exchanged between men in the same way as any other commodity is." I can see why this would be vexing to a fiercely independent and self-reliant woman like you or Camille Paglia.pic.twitter.com/paWX1PcwtT

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      6. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia Apr 2
        Replying to @HenstockStephen @HPluckrose

        Oh god. Can’t stand Paglia either.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Stephen Henstock‏ @HenstockStephen Apr 2
        Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose

        Whoops! I'm currently reading "Sexual Personae" and finding it interesting. I knew I was taking a chance comparing you as CP does not seem to engender neutral opinions. I just like brash women, like @amyalkon , @HPluckrose and yourself!

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      8. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia Apr 2
        Replying to @HenstockStephen @HPluckrose @amyalkon

        Haha. Hey I’m flattered anyway. :)

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen Apr 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Some of us took it seriously

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      1. Adam Kolasinski‏ @adamckolasinski Apr 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I guess I must be really blessed to have studied economic & finance, two of the few disciplines in the social sciences untouched by that nonsense.

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      2. dicentra ن‏ @dicentra33 Apr 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Everything I learned about pomo I learned after school, at @proteinwisdom.

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      1. Kieran Stott, Writer‏ @STOTTINMAD Apr 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        We did modernity think it was and a bunch of other stuff

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      1. Andrew Rabbitt‏ @GhostOfFrederic Apr 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Yeah, but some can make a little go a long way...

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      1. Imhotep‏ @TheReal_Imhotep Apr 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        As opposed to “figuratively” studying it at university?

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      1. George Nasr‏ @GeorgeJNasr Apr 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I never had to study this crap. Thank God, we had a dour classical education, back in Lebanon. But there was other crap.

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      2. Thomas Stern‏ @shmarxism Apr 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        The concept of literalness seems rather anti-postmodern.

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      3. chris baker‏ @fiefofee Apr 2
        Replying to @shmarxism @HPluckrose

        anti-poststructuralist but not necessarily anti-postmodern

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      2. Helen Wilson‏ @premodernism Apr 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It should be taught to a certain extent, but maybe it's gone too far, esp in literature, apparently.

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      3. The Danish Schoolteacher‏ @chaqqn Apr 2
        Replying to @premodernism @HPluckrose

        It should be taught mostly so that students would be able to inoculate themselves from it.

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