Cracks in Pomo
postmodernity is characterized by frictions between structurally incommensurate political diagrams,where ultimately one is…
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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Postmodern Theory and liberalism do not merely exist in tension: they are almost directly at odds with one another. Liberalism sees knowledge as something we can learn about reality, more or less objectively; Theory sees knowledges as completely created by humans—stories we tell ourselves, largely in the unwitting service of maintaining our own soc
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
I have reservations about this analysis of the “postmodern world.”
Merold Westphal • Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Book 21)
This is an observation about human rationality as much as it is about the epistemic conditions generated by life in what Jay Bolter has aptly termed the digital plentitude and which I usually call the Database. We are not as narrowly rational in our thinking as many would like to believe. Which is why conventional “solutions” to the problems associ... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Digital Inception
that postmodernism “represents a form of cultural relativism about such things as reality, truth, reason, value, linguistic meaning, the self and other notions. On a postmodern view, there is no such thing as objective reality, truth, value, reason, and so forth. All these are social constructions, creations of linguistic practices, and as such are
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