quoting myself from a dm convo, "main accomplishment of pomo was giving us a starter vocabulary for talking about the post ww2 world"
cf: Gayatri Spivak, "can the subaltern speak?"... without pomo language, arguably *nobody* could speak for a while, for certain values of 'speak'
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people who are knee-jerk terrified of pomo, or worse, conflate it with marxism, miss out on a lot of genuinely interesting stuff under the hood there
I'm only superficially acquainted with it, but even the little I know is very useful
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Apparently, an Israeli general called Shimon Naveh planned an attack on Nablus in 2002 which was influenced by his study of modern French philosophy. His methodology is called "Systemic Operational Design" and it has been taught to officers from other militaries.
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its funny because the ideological fathers of neoliberalism are basically postmodernists but they just play nice with conservatives so they get a pass
very easy to go from hayek to focault
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Yeah, the vocabulary of pomo, and specific critiques of modern society, are far less intrinsically tied to the moral judgments or applications often used today than a lot of people think.
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