#Foucault

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

An important thread about something I've been meaning to write for ages.The fault for this lies heavily on the Woke's importing of the postmodern thought of Michel Foucault and Jacques

enemy of the pod

hostarastrology

in "are prisons obsolete?" davis points out how the logic of the prison is so available in the art we consume, and that art is the way people interface and

Janna

_bwabwa_

Philosophers if they were muppets, a thread I made so I wouldn’t have to think about it anymore: Machiavelli is Ernie John Locke is Hoots the Owl Karl Marx is

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

OK, OK. I have been doing quite a lot of 'Poor me. People keep criticising me unfairly" lately. I should probably do some acknowledgement of fair criticisms. OK, so you

Beyhan Farhadi, PhD

BBFarhadi

all that's missing is 1984 #modernwhitesupremacy If you're wondering, what's THAT about? But wait, there's more. why hate on Foucault though Content warning - anti-Black racism:https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/12946573

Kristen Hanley Cardozo

KHandozo

Saw someone point out yesterday that Elizabeth from Knoxville's piano scarf likely refers to the number of keys on a piano. Nazis, y'all. I want to point out that I

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

People say we are in a cold civil war. This is wrong. We LOST a cold civil war, because we had sticks and our enemies had guns. The best plan

Teresa M. Bejan

tmbejan

1/ It’s also worth asking today: what exactly makes speech “free”? 2/ The sense in play in the current debate about ‘cancel culture‘ is that of parrhesia. In Greek, it

Matthew

mjlwry

Struggling to pull my thoughts together for this article. My basic thesis is that a latent prometheanism underlies much of orthodox Marxism which structures the workerism/productivism of those tendencies. It

Daniel Buck

MrDanielBuck

So my biggest problem with the whole #DisruptTexts thing isn't their treatment of "the canon" (whatever that means) but their literary theory.It turns every book into an echo chamber. Traditional

Daystar Aspect: Immolation of Genius

idealvilli

Consider how the layout, design, and architecture of a building affects the behaviors & activities performed there.Say you walk into a gym, and all the cardio equipment is facing toward

🍔CULTSULTANT 🍥

GRITCULT

whoever has the ability to name something within society, is the one who has power. if you cannot name something you do no have power of it. this could be

ElizaPetch

ElizaPetch

A summary of the Owen Jones interview with Judith Butler for those who can’t stand to watch.OJ’s questions are designed to elicit from Butler the sort of statements a self

Noah Berlatsky

nberlat

It always surprises me how Feyerabend never gets mentioned in these arguments about postmodernism and relativism. a lot of the stuff that gets attributed to Foucault and Derrida about relativism

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

ghostofchristo1

The basic problem, as I see it, with Pluckrose, Lindsay, et al. on what they call "wokery" is that they mistakenly attribute all the power to Critical Theory itself, rather

Joshua Miller

anotherpanacea

While this EO is silly, and I think the emphasis on private prisons is misplaced, there's bad argument against privates and a better one that deserves attention from serious scholars:

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