#Foucault

Dene Carter

Fluttermind

Creatives often hear:"Don't do . It's too obscure/complex. The audience won't understand it."My answer to that is: "Good."An obvious joke is no joke at all.Wit that is self-evident is a

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

One for the radical Rawlsians I've seen out and about. You know what the veil of ignorance looks like when you realise such abstract mutual recognition in the form of

Matt Denny (he/him)

Matt_Denny

This feels less like a funny joke and more like politically a irresponsible statement. I am, most certainly, reading too much into this and I will always joke about how

Janna

_bwabwa_

Philosophers looking at you like you can’t sit with them, a thread: Donna Haraway: I don’t know why Derrida is like this Heidegger looks like you can’t sit with him

Cutcha Risling Baldy

cutchabaldy

Native American Short Story: The Lord of the Flies Native kids get stranded on island. Ask the kid w/ glasses to use them to start fires. Eat well. Tell stories.

Prof. Megan Goodwin

mpgPhD

a) stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: live it, learn it, love itb) theory is a foreign language, even when it looks like it was written in englishyou gotta read that shit

JamesHeartfield

JamesHeartfield

Great. Tech industries to enforce a ‘common set of facts’. Curious that the long march through the institutions should take us from ‘critical theory’ right back to industry-enforced positivism.https://twitter.com/fboversight/status/

Dr. Gerald Roche

GJosephRoche

Second lecture, January 14, 1976. As I see it, today’s lecture covers two main topics: a discussion of methodology in relation to the study of power a discussion

Rebecca Buxton

RebeccaBuxton

A thread of philosophers with cats. First up, Iris Murdoch with this shocked feline. Derrida with a siamese cat Sartre with has cat, who was apparently called "Nothing" (I know)

Discursive anomalies, esq

sargoth

Foucault asserted that knowledge is power. This has been interpreted that those in the know have the power to affect things. However, it can also be read as those aspiring

Gillian Frank

1gillianfrank1

From Michel Foucault's account of a 17th century "lockdown" in France. Please stop opining about history without doing any research. #twitterstorians https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1325604856283869189 Need a more recent

Sam Hoadley-Brill

deonteleologist

Alrighty folxxx, you asked for it. Here’s my thread on @Hpluckrose’s instant classic, “How French ‘Intellectuals’ Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact.” Originally published at Areo, lucky enough to

SP fan account

thuletide

Seeing hordes of leftists defend the globalists (aka corporate billionaires who they claim are their mortal enemies) got me thinking:Why do leftists do this? not only this, but why do

Dr. Ellie Lockhart is the protagonist

BootlegGirl

The way the Right has seized on "postmodernism" in "academia" as this massive... thing... is so dissonant with my experiences as an academic. I learned about various postmodern/poststructural theories, foolishly

srikakulamlo siima kondaki

kuffir

when the judge in the bhanwari devi case said, 'how can upper caste individuals touch a lower caste woman'.. or when the kerala judge said a brahmin 'should always be

Emily Alison Zhou

emializh

the eighty hd conversation feels like it has wandered into the thickets that result from implying even a little bit that "socially constructed" == "essentially ephemeral, fake" admittedly the distinctions

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