ostrophene

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   by ostrophene 6y ago

   French intellectual celebs from the period only started talking postmodernism in the 70s and 80s, after Anglos started asking them about it! the idea itself is largely derived from Fredric Jameson's writings on it in the 1980s. he char
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   by ostrophene 6y ago

   Foucault's biggest inspirations were Nietzsche, where Foucault gets the basic notion of power's universal systematicity (everything is already/can be articulated as a master/slave relation); and Heidegger, for whom the c
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   by ostrophene 6y ago

   great comments and replies in this thread! one thing that it really brings to light for me is that unfortunately, a lot of us in the West just aren't conditioned to receive continental thought. for us academic disciplines are supposed
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   by ostrophene 6y ago

   very good take here, and it gets to the heart of the issue: Chomsky comes out of the analytic tradition where the goal is to rigorously explain and define everything that can't quite be pinned down by mathematical symbolization. French
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   by ostrophene 6y ago

   yes. the point of my post was that Foucault, rightly or wrongly, has a clear delineation of what counts as fact and what counts as Fact. we can freely debate the ideological implications of THAT division. but he does not - and this is my po
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   There Is No Such Thing as a Decentralized Exchange(coincenter.org)

   3 points by ostrophene 6y ago|0 comments