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I think part of the reason why this is so much more visible online is the fact that the whole online world is the world of words. For example, the idea that yo
by poszlem 4y ago
I think part of the reason why this is so much more visible online is the fact that the whole online world is the world of words.
For example, the idea that you can "be violent" toward someone by not affirming them is a profoundly online idea, because everybody here is only as real as they can convince us they are. If I told you I am an 80 y/o woman from Iceland there is not much you can do to verify that. Thus we end up in a culture where you HAVE to believe me, otherwise you are "literally erasing" me from existence.
- Der_Einzige 4y agoSounds good, except that the critical theory, and other traditions that ascribe "violence" to written communication, had their first huge flare up with Situationalist International and those protests in france in the 60s. Well before the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68
- poszlem 4y agoThey did, and then they went away. For a long time it looked like postmodernism is dead. The reason we talk about it right now is because of the rise of the online culture, where suddenly a philosophy of fluidity and lack of physical boundaries can be finally applied. Postmodernism wasn't a problem. "Applied Postmodernism" is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeXfV0tAxtE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeXfV0tAxtE).
- meheleventyone 4y agoActually given you probably don’t know Icelandic and it’s a small country that might be really easy to verify.