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Tbh, I wouldn’t say that the problem w Barron isn’t that he doesn’t understand “postmodernism” (whatever that means), but rather that he himself is unknowingly postmodern (in the Jamesonian sense) in that he articulates the Church via the cultural logic of late capitalism
Anyway, see you all at the Verso loft in a few months
An example of this is the manner in which frames the Church as a community of (male) identity formation and “self-care.” As such, it is no surprise that he has expressed an affinity for a quasi-New Age self-help guru like Jordan Peterson.
What is surprising, however, is that Barron misses the obvious affinities that his ideologically encrypted Catholicism (much like Peterson’s ideologically encrypted Jungianism) has with the late Foucault
