Xi Jinping, in this aspect summarized by @Scholars_Stage, recognizes the problem of postmodernity (“incredulity toward grand meta-narratives”) and gestures toward the fundamentalist response…pic.twitter.com/lhkJifh4nV
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Xi Jinping, in this aspect summarized by @Scholars_Stage, recognizes the problem of postmodernity (“incredulity toward grand meta-narratives”) and gestures toward the fundamentalist response…pic.twitter.com/lhkJifh4nV
Modernity is forced into fundamentalism as its only possible defense against postmodernity. This seems doomed to failure in the long run, and I read Xi Jinping as recognizing that…https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism …
Instead he’s groping for a system that would somehow be all things at once, even though this seems to contradict itself repeatedly within each sentence. That is precisely what systematicity/modernity/rationalism cannot do.pic.twitter.com/1PTBiGxyDd
These constant contradictions are characteristic of “the atomized mode,” which the West plunged into ~15 years ago. China is open enough that perhaps it cannot escape the same inexorable logic of conceptual diversity leading to dysfunctional incoherence.https://meaningness.com/atomized-mode
Alternatively, I might be too ignorant of political theory to understand the perfectly plain sense Xi is making here.pic.twitter.com/i12hjpUk8w
Doesn’t it mainly show that you can do anything as long as you use the right words? Augustus as First Among Equals, not King. Prosperity Gospel as Christianity. And Chinese Whatever as Socialism. (and the reverse, of course — smear Obamacare as Socialism)
David may we’ll be right as regards what the top on the party are thinking; but I don’t expect deep analysis to be embedded in speeches. Rather I expect those to be what they always are, an attempt to get everyone to at least pretend to be on the same page.
Party may not be preparing for post modernity pit falls or disintegration into a vaccum but going back to roots as it find itself weak in its ability to handle trade war challenges. Party dumped ideals 4 money and now desperately trying to back peddle to idealism.
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