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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Replying to @dkrae @HPluckrose and
As for Thomas's categorization of you as a "reactionary lunatic propagandizing for the far right" he's demonstrating himself to be lazy & biased, which is not a good look for a purported intellectual of any stripe. Popular culture & current academia isn't a "pure" conversation.
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Replying to @dkrae @BristolBen and
Yep. I am interested in ideology and psychology in a political and cultural context. That tends to be messy. It involves reading a lot of the latest feminist epistemology, critical race theory, intersectionality, postcolonial theory & queer theory papers which cite the PoMos.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @dkrae and
It condenses to these ideas essentially.pic.twitter.com/6EU6aaHWqv
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BristolBen and
IMO, these ideas are what 'postmodernism' has become in the applied "political sense" and among pop-culture academic depts, whereas the original ideas that gave rise to this would be described somewhat differently by a philosophy 'purist'. Both are useful in different spheres.
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