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alieninstinct

['Member']Joined: April 27, 2019 at 16:03Last active: August 02, 2021 at 19:41None discussions6 comments

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In: Philosopher Roger Scruton Has Been Sacked for Islamophobia and Antisemitism  — view comment
I've kinda enjoyed lurking on this thread. It's a thorny issue--on the one hand I quite like the idea of the 'free marketplace of ideas' and free spee...
May 20, 2019 at 11:30
In: Why has post-modernism proven to be popular in literature departments but not in philosophy?  — view comment
Like I said in my previous posts, I think there is much that is valuable in 'postmodern' thinking, I don't even think agreeing with people like Foucau...
April 28, 2019 at 01:25
In: Why has post-modernism proven to be popular in literature departments but not in philosophy?  — view comment
The so-called 'postmodernists' won't be there forever, the borg will assimilate their uniqueness in time (I hope). As for Shakespeare... Mega corpus o...
April 28, 2019 at 00:44
In: Why has post-modernism proven to be popular in literature departments but not in philosophy?  — view comment
I suppose I should have said the future of Eng lit ought to be in ML/comp linguistics + systems theory. That being said, digital humanities is a field...
April 28, 2019 at 00:23
In: Why has post-modernism proven to be popular in literature departments but not in philosophy?  — view comment
As (I think) Joshs implies, 'postmodernism' is more of a pointless buzzword than a useful organising category that groups together thinkers with dispa...
April 27, 2019 at 23:03
In: Why has post-modernism proven to be popular in literature departments but not in philosophy?  — view comment
While the writing style of people like Derrida is extremely frustrating, I don't think its fair to characterise postmodernism as attacks against reaso...
April 27, 2019 at 16:28
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