As one of your most devoted disciples, @HPluckrose , I would like some clarification on the direction you are taking us.
I was convinced it was slightly to the left.
https://twitter.com/thomas_lord/status/998038886226976768 …
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Replying to @BristolBen @HPluckrose
A problem with
@thomas_lord's critique via@davelab6 is he is dealing primarily with the "pure philosophy" of the original texts, which@HPluckrose points to as the source of ideas that have subsequently been bastardized by cultural, political & academic 'interdisciplinarians'.3 replies 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @dkrae @BristolBen and
When your starting point is Marx, your world view is going to be skewed. Or, when your starting point is Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Mill, Smith, Nietzsche, or perhaps a religion, your world view is also going to be skewed. IOW, they're speaking diff languages on different topics.
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Replying to @dkrae @BristolBen and
My starting point is the ideas that are circling right now and undermining scholarship & the credibility of the left. Then I look at what who they are citing for this - Crenshaw, Butler, Spivak etc - and what they are citing as the origins of their ideas.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BristolBen and
It's a fair project to try to clarify what is a very messy intellectual / pseudo-intellectual mess. However, there are those who have absorbed these ideas via interdisciplinary studies, typically 2nd hand or 3rd hand bastardizations. And there are those who know the originals..
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Replying to @dkrae @HPluckrose and
The problem here, IMO, is that you're primarily addressing the popular culture movements and the ways these ideas are being applied in real world situations, while some folks like Thomas are coming at it from their pedantry about the pure concepts. Two different conversations.
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Yes, that's why I addressed them and the accusation of reductionism or strawmanning in my last essay on the subject.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @dkrae and
See the section called Claim: There is much more to postmodernism than its critics present.https://areomagazine.com/2018/02/07/no-postmodernism-is-not-dead-and-other-misconceptions/ …
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