Then I'm glad you've got the pomo state on your list of concerns, saves me the hassle. The third quote in your response answers your reply to the seco...
And I'm sure he really understood that and didn't just say it to seem less petty. Nonetheless a) he was inspired to it by a pre-existing animosity tow...
Yeah I kind of figured this is where you were going. So all along you were asking me what _my_ criteria were distinguishing between what _you_ conside...
Good question. I don't think the difference generally lies in the form the criticism might take, although I think certain preoccupations are present, ...
Do you have a sort of person in mind? Scientists should use the scientific method. In my view more things should take a scientific approach. But it ca...
Again, no. Conservative meaning he feels he needs to defend those ideas from other ideas that might undermine them. I get that this wasn't the answer ...
No, I'm not talking about his politics, I'm talking about his position on science. Sokal and many like him considered criticism of science practice as...
Specifically in the part I quoted you were referring to an obfuscation of distinctions. And I'm arguing that clarifying others' distinctions is part o...
The same criteria as any other publication: internal consistency, language that is parsable and referable if not plain, and has some relevance to a br...
Dichotomies do this to us. We can imagine a good person, who aims to help the most helpless, aims to never harm another, isn't greedy or selfish, keep...
That doesn't seem accurate. Deconstruction (if we're counting post-structuralism) is to a large degree about discovering distinctions that the author ...
:up: Then yes, in my opinion. I haven't read much in the way of pomo journals, and probably a weirdly high proportion of that is social psychology whi...
"World" here just means "branch". It's not the same as a whole separate universe with its own wavefunction. I think it's an unfortunate ambiguity, not...
P S. I feel that, because the Sokal affair inevitably comes up, too much time is probably spent by me defending postmodernism from hypocritical ad hom...
Social Text was non-peer-reviewed. I don't know which journals are and aren't peer-reviewed. Any reputable science journal is but I'm not sure whether...
I can agree with that: it's like a security or penetration test, it's better to not have the shortcomings but second best is to at least be aware of t...
I've recently rewatched Inland Empire for the first time since it came out and was inspired to write a draft thread about it. Lynch is amazing! Does D...
He says similar of all grand narratives, that they're "terrorising" and "totalitarian", "silencing" other discourses. My view on this, and Lyotard did...
True, but not a pomo-specific thing. I think more a French and German thing, right? (I'm thinking of the French and German existentialists in particul...
The Sokal affair seemed to me pretty stupid on both sides. Sokal got his paper rejected from several journals before finding one stupid enough to publ...
I think, as 180 showed, you could argue for centuries back to decentralising, relativistic, or sceptical precursors, proto-pomo-contenders, and things...
No, I wouldn't criticise him for dualism. I think his meditations were absolute tosh even at the time, though. It would be if you were saying that a p...
But it's not like the idea is that WWII happened, the postmodernists said "We're pomo now," and people started acting all pomo. The fallout of WWII, i...
No, I absolutely do. I also don't believe that nature is in the habit of finding two ways to do the same thing, so our social biology most definitely ...
I think since pomo started out as a sort of global state of the infoNation, it's less a question of precursors and more a question of contemporaneous ...
Ah! So everything that has precursors is a waste of time? I'm not so sure... Darwin is a good shout, mind, and displays his merits by still being reje...
I think like a lot of things it's got some vital stuff and some guff, but the reason I started this thread is because of various conversations I've ha...
I'd expected to have to sum over the Yeses, but it appears that people are more split between options 2 & 3 than between 1 & 2 (given that the two-thi...
Don't forgot that designer drugs are also dependent on crude oil. We are burning our own ability to make medicines. There is a growing distrust in Wes...
Yes, I was thinking something similar about the physical sciences and mathematics after relativity and old quantum mechanics. Very furtive days. Empir...
I hadn't considered echo chambers within echo chambers. I was thinking more how Q has made the step of allowing itself to be falsified, been falsified...
I'd say belief in/awareness of a technology-driven apocalypse is definitely part of the postmodern condition. Right now that's kind of the bookend of ...
That's interesting. I agree that latter 'modern physics' could just as well be called 'postmodern physics'. Relativity de-centred the observer, embedd...
Cheers Janus. While the anti-vax lunatic fringe might disagree, I think most people would agree. By contrast, would you say that most people agree or ...
That sounds like an answer in the negative. Ordinary now. But ordinary at the time? Was it usual for Americans to distrust each other for no obvious r...
I was never arguing that violence didn't occur, I even cited an article about violence along with the other two as an example. What I was arguing agai...
Hopefully coherentism takes care of itself, both in terms of foundationalism ought to yield a single coherent theory (trivial) in because of the condi...
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