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This seems to be a mix of Charles Taylor and some kind of High Times letter to the editor. Taylor, on his use of "postmodern:" > “Postmodern” is intended to r
by drewcoo 4y ago
This seems to be a mix of Charles Taylor and some kind of High Times letter to the editor.
Taylor, on his use of "postmodern:"
> “Postmodern” is intended to recall Robert Brandom’s recent nonstandard use of this term for a sort of Hegelian synthesis of the best of the ancient and modern worlds.
source: https://brinkley.blog/about/ https://brinkley.blog/about/
The author then confuses Taylor's "postmodern" with more common definitions here:
> Stop and think about how more and more humans started to describe themselves as being “postmodern” at the same time that more and more humans used more and deeper drugs to get higher and higher
I don't think that was intended to deceive. A more charitable take is that the author likes saying "postmodern" to seem intellectual.
- jrumbut 4y agoIf you are able to infer anything about what the author thinks postmodernism is then you are a much deeper thinker than I am. I will give the author credit for (exactly) one thing. They used the word postmodernism but didn't define it as a box containing everything they don't like and perceive as less than 100 years old. In that sense, they are better than tens of thousands of other internet essayists. Might want to lay off the DMT though.
- evv555 4y ago>This seems to be a mix of Charles Taylor and some kind of High Times letter to the editor. . >The author then confuses Taylor's "postmodern" with more common definitions here A synthesis of "postmodern" counternarratives with premodern/modern worldviews is still itself postmodern(post-postmodern). You draw a valid distinction but at the same time the two definitions are related and the distinguishing lines are blurry without the right framing.