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The same sort of arguments are playing out in the US, albeit on a shorter timescale. I couldn't say when it started, but it's extremely depressing that the hist
by anigbrowl 2mo ago
The same sort of arguments are playing out in the US, albeit on a shorter timescale. I couldn't say when it started, but it's extremely depressing that the history section in most general bookstores is just a locus for narrative warfare rather than scholarship.
Of course, this phenomenon is by no means unique to these two countries. I know a Japanese author who has a small but dedicated following for his argument that nuclear weapons don't exist: https://books.google.com/books/about/Death_Object.html?id=MwzVswEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description https://books.google.com/books/about/Death_Object.html?id=Mw...
- AlotOfReading 2mo agoI get what you mean that pop hist. books aren't academic, but "narrative warfare" describes a huge proportion of historical scholarship. Whether or not you agree with it, that's the whole point of Metahistory and the linguistic turn.
- talon8635 2mo agoI’ve read plenty of good history/biography publishing in the past 50 years right up to last year. I’m not sure I understand your claim. Narrative warfare… I guess the question is, what isn’t “narrative warfare”?
- AlexCoventry 2mo agoDispassionate search for and representation of truth?
- MelonArmiger 2mo ago"Truth" doesn't exist outside of social construction, which is performed through narrative warfare, so in fact you want what you already have.
- PalmPilotProMax 2mo agoI have a theory that "narrative warfare" doesn't exist, and it's all just faulty emanations of the single truth from the primordial creation blasting into our craniums in haphazard and mutually contradictory ways. I'll write a book about it. See you in your local bookstore!
- Apocryphon 2mo agoWhat's his explanation for what happened? iirc, immediately after Hiroshima the survivors had thought the Allies had used some sort of fuel bomb.
- kjs3 2mo agoNo atom bomb. Wow...that some nearly Shockley levels of 'engineers disease' right there. Edit: clarified which part of the post I was referencing.