Fun Fact: There is no such thing as a pseudo-intellectual. That's just what you call an intellectual you disagree with.
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Replying to @drethelin
Wonder what it says about me that I identify with the term
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it’s actually bc it’s wrong, there’s no such thing as a “real” intellectual it’s just pseudo intellectuals who admit it vs those who don’t
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Replying to @ctbeiser @literalbanana and
Half-assed theory: modernity provided conditions of possibility for actual intellectuals; postmodernity does not, so they are extinct.
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Replying to @Meaningness @ctbeiser and
Pseudo-X is characteristic of postmodernism (worship of surfaces and simulacra) which I for one reject.
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Replying to @Meaningness @ctbeiser and
In a more straightforward sense, a pseudo intellectual might be someone trying to be a midern-model intellectual and failing.
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Replying to @Meaningness @ctbeiser and
I doubt any of us are doing that, so either way I’m not enthusiastic about the label “pseudo-intellectual”.
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Replying to @Meaningness @ctbeiser and
Maybe I’m taking this too seriously (and maybe even thinking like a modern person here). But there’s a scent of nihilism in “pseudo”
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The ambiguity between seriousness and play of thinkers/writers like ourselves is characteristic of metamodernism in @SethAbramson’s sense
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Replying to @Meaningness @ctbeiser and
I think we can celebrate our role in breaking the path to a positive new cultural mode—not a failing imitation of modern intellectualism
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Replying to @Meaningness @ctbeiser and
I’ll take “ambiguity between serious and playful.” Anything to counteract the ponderousness of “intellectual” :)
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