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Modo?

As an ideology, modernism is non-dead in the sense that there are still some folks who believe that science, technology and western democracy will sav...

He did. Let me come back to what he was saying about race, and how it is relevant to postmodernism and to your question about how it could ever become...

My own diagnostic is more pessimistic: I believe that any school or tradition of philosophy that captures enough of the public's and academia's attent...

I called them and they confirmed that they want you to stay exactly as you are. The red lumps are but a minor side effect to their accessing your bloo...

That's a question that resonates both with the current post-truth moment and with the little piece of philosophy history I have wanted to add to the p...

On the contrary, your red lumpy legs indicate that mosquitoes like you quite a lot.

Pretty much everything on earth is. Even the landscape in most places is anthropic.

And occasionally, thanks to the Sokals of this world. As you recognized, it's important to minimize the level of bullshit. It cuts both ways: humaniti...

LOL. Evidently science is a social construct, but it is constructed via a certain method, which combines observations, hypotheses building aka modelin...

Good for you. Once again I am not anti-pomo, I'm rather sympathetic to a lot of what they say. I just think it is unwise to reject empirical validatio...

What he proved is that a leading pomo journal could not distinguish sense from nonsense. And that's a fact.

But factuality / empirical evidence was absent from your criteria for making sense... So what am I supposed to tell you about diversity? Non factual s...

That was precisely Sokal's position, that pomo does NOT represent a significant threat to science at all. Rather, he saw it as corrosive to the credib...

A distinction which is now blurred in modern gender studies, queer studies, fat studies, etc. i.e. the industry of grievience studies stemming from Po...

Personally, I would count clarity of expression as a criteria to distinguish sense from nonsense. As Boileau once put it: Ce qui se conçoit bien s'éno...

Okay, so how would you make this distinction between sensical Pomo and nonsensical one? What criteria would you use?

I am asking for your opinion on the matter. Or anybody else's for that matter. Can a distinction be made between nonsense and sense in a postmodernist...

Still, the question remains: what passes for nonsense and what doesn't, in a Pomo frame?

I'm not against Pomo as a whole, just curious about what constitute quality standards in a Pomo framework. I'd be at a total loss if I was asked to pe...

Do you have evidence of that? Sokal is a leftist, and he's not an arsehole. Such hoaxes are useful, if only to put reviewers and publishers on notice ...

I never read Derrida so I cannot really comment. Just wanted to point out that Pomo should not be taken a coherent doctrine or school of thought, as e...

I blame Althusser for this.

There are still very clear French writers. Camus' style was more than clear: elegant but direct, and even sometimes blunt in making the case. I find E...

Pomo is seen in France as a post-structuralist movement, more dynamic in its thinking, more historical, seeing structures as fluid and evolutive rathe...

Umberto Eco? I love him but never saw him as Pomo... ? Personally I agree with the (or one of the) basic diagnostic of postmodernism, in summary that ...

I should really read Fashionable Nonsense. Note that Badiou was also the target of an academic hoax à la Sokal. On April fool's day, 2016, two French ...

Searle admired Foucault. And Foucault was a brilliant thinker. His critique of Derrida is that obscurity is a way to avoid critique and accountability...

Yes. Even Foucault is pretty much buried nowadays, nobody studies him much in France, although he was clearly not a charlatan. Deleuze is an exception...

I would like to note that, for better or worse, postmodernism never got in France the echo it got in the US, where it became dominant in humanities. S...

It's a very cool album, Getz plays it super smooth and breezy. One of the most widely sold jazz album ever, it reached far beyond the usual jazz audie...

Thank you Amity for your great spirit and entries. The guy singing is Antônio Carlos Jobim himself, a very successful composer of popular Brazilian mu...

The Waters of March (Portuguese: "Águas de Março" is a Brazilian song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1972. He wrote the lyrics both in Portuguese...

There were: See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense

But all the songs Tell the same story There's always a boy And a girl in despair She calls him out But he doesn't hear He sees only her But she doesn'...

That may be because you are an adventurous philosopher, a risk taking metaphysician.... :-) Better get it wrong once in a while than say nothing, or s...

Taking risk can be seen as a basic human need. It gives you "the thrill". You feel more alive, you will remember vividly what happened, will be able t...

I did not.

Sitting there doing nothing does evoke boredom.

What then?

It's been called risk-taking.

It's humoristic. Evidently it's better to be slightly bored than to go through all these miseries.

The senses are about acquiring information from the world. Do you disagree?

All the same, no need to talk about things so flicking and impermanent.

Indeed. Especially if you are right that ideas do not really exist.

By this reasoning, eagles are smarter than us because they have better eyes.

I feel differently. For me, my thoughts and sensations are a first layer of reality. Then other people and things are a second layer of reality, sligh...

That'd be why we have both senses and reason, no?

There's Black Lives Matter and Bernie.

Imagine if that film had actually been funny... That's what Allen did with Tigger Lily: take a stupid action flick and rewrite the dialogues.