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John David Ebert

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Author of Art After Metaphysics, The Age of Catastrophe, The New Media Invasion and Dead Celebrities Living Icons.

Santa Fe, NM
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    1. CamillePagliaQuotes‏ @PagliaQuotes Oct 12

      American humanists, untutored in sociology, are knocked out by Foucault’s daring: analyze crime and punishment, prisons and penal codes! Gee, I wish I’d thought of that! Well, Foucault didn’t think of it either. It’s in Durkheim’s The Division of Labour in Society. (SAAC 1992)

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    2. John David Ebert‏ @johndavidebert Oct 12
      Replying to @PagliaQuotes

      You just can't discipline yourself, Camille, to sit down and read him. Too bad. Most American intellectuals, Jordan Peterson included, just don't seem to have the discipline to read French po-mo theory.

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    3. Kevin Shau‏ @KevinShau Oct 13
      Replying to @johndavidebert @PagliaQuotes

      I've read French po-mo theory and can say that it is absolute garbage. Derrida, Lacan, Cixous - all peddlers of irrelevant theories which have little to nothing to do with the real world.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTXOF7K2ZA …

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      John David Ebert‏ @johndavidebert Oct 13
      Replying to @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

      You might've read them but you didn't understand them. If you had then you'd be aware of their applicability to all sorts of things. I've spent decades writing books applying their ideas to very concrete things: books, films, events, etc.

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        2. Kevin Shau‏ @KevinShau Oct 13
          Replying to @johndavidebert @PagliaQuotes

          I should also highlight the many hoaxes and postmodernism generator - all of which undermine the credibility of postmodern pseudo-disciplines. I'm sure you are aware of both the Sokal Hoax and the recent series of hoaxes by @ConceptualJames , @peterboghossian and @HPluckrose

          5 replies 3 retweets 37 likes
        3. John David Ebert‏ @johndavidebert Oct 13
          Replying to @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes and

          What I'm aware of is that Sokal and Bricmont's book tried to say that the likes of Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze and others are "fashionable nonsense." That simply isn't correct. They just didn't work to understand the concepts and ideas.

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        4. Antonio Jarreta‏ @atlas_jarreta Oct 14
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau and

          "It's not that you didn't like The Matrix, it's that you didn't understand it."

          1 reply 1 retweet 30 likes
        5. John David Ebert‏ @johndavidebert Oct 14
          Replying to @atlas_jarreta @KevinShau and

          At first I didn't like The Matrix, that's true. But then after watching it and being with it over repeated viewings, I did indeed come to understand it and like it better and better. Same thing, btw, with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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        6. Antonio Jarreta‏ @atlas_jarreta Oct 14
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau and

          pic.twitter.com/fD8m0vQnWr

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        7. John David Ebert‏ @johndavidebert Oct 14
          Replying to @atlas_jarreta @KevinShau and

          This looks like something you would draw in a high school art class.

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        8. Antonio Jarreta‏ @atlas_jarreta Oct 14
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau and

          You talking out of experience?

          1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
        9. John David Ebert‏ @johndavidebert Oct 14
          Replying to @atlas_jarreta @KevinShau and

          Well let's see I was in high school three decades ago. I assume you're still there?

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        2.  🐸not 🐸 AliRadicali‏ @Banned_Ali Oct 14
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

          I'm sure I've heard creationists use exactly this argument. "If you don't accept the bible as god-given truth then you must not have understood it!" OK dear.🙄

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. John David Ebert‏ @johndavidebert Oct 14
          Replying to @Banned_Ali @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

          That's a retarded thing to say. The analogy has no validity. I find postmodern thought quite useful in understanding culture, especially contemporary art, most of which doesn't make much sense without some knowledge of it.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Kevan‏ @kevancopeland Oct 14
          Replying to @johndavidebert @Banned_Ali and

          Most contemporary art is notoriously bad, and all art has to be its own best explanation. Bad artists who possess the same conformist, careerist mindset as academics jumped on the Pomo/post-structuralism bandwagon and use it to excuse lack of skill, talent, vision and quality.

          3 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
        5. John David Ebert‏ @johndavidebert Oct 14
          Replying to @kevancopeland @Banned_Ali and

          A lot of it is bad, I agree. But a lot of it is stuff that I thought was bad until I sat down and studied it, learned what it meant and then was able to appreciate quite a bit o it. That's why I wrote "Art After Metaphysics" to help people understand it.

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        2. HairballSmith‏ @NeilSmi84626771 Oct 13
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

          You've wasted decades....

          1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
        3. John David Ebert‏ @johndavidebert Oct 14
          Replying to @NeilSmi84626771 @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

          How could learning about something in detail be a waste of time? What do you think life is about? We're here to learn and soak up knowledge about the world. Postmodern thinking changed my life. I was very negative about it for a long time, but then...Baudrillard!

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. [[[King Crocoduck]]]‏ @KingCrocoduck Oct 14
          Replying to @johndavidebert @NeilSmi84626771 and

          "America" was the most puerile book I'd ever had the displeasure of reading. He sounds like an edgy teenager trying desperately to be sad about something, because in his mind sad = deep

          0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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        1. (((stevealbury)))‏ @stevealbury Oct 13
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

          ahahaha I spent 5 years on my doctorate at Oxford swimming in this pool and can say that it's just twirly bollocks - after getting into a debate with Steve Woolgar about whether the moon existed I gave up and went back to computer science.

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        1. Peter Dowse‏ @pdowse Oct 13
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

          There's people who spend decades "understanding" Scientology too, it's possible that we can both understand it and think it's a load of made up bollocks parading as science / religion / ideology etc.

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        1. Nil admirari‏ @Borderlander_P Oct 13
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

          Or people read and understand the theses and detetmined their value to be non-existent. And now you try to justify a lifetime spent on an ideological construct. To others and yourself.

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        1. Glen V‏ @The_DoctorV Oct 13
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

          Postmodern philosophy has no application. Its existence was a rebuttal to the death of theological philosophy. An attempt to reason with feelings and faith. Its garbage, end of story. If you think it has value it's because you very much want your feelings to be reality. STBU

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        1. Exasperated‏ @Numberopinion Oct 13
          Replying to @johndavidebert @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes

          ...said the Priest about his religion.

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