Tag: Postmodernism

  • Is Graham Harman as New Materialist??

    from Antiquities Beyond Humanism ed E Bianchi, S. Brill, B. Holmes — Read on www.academia.edu/39168908/Hyperobjects_OOO_and_the_eruptive_classics_field_notes_of_an_accidental_tourist —–  I’m posting this essay because it might be informative to some in general. I have not read it. I read pretty much the first three sentences, and then I stopped… Is Graham Harman part of the New Materialist…

  • Unexpection: Body or Embodiment: The Paradox of Modern Cosmology

    The paradox of modern ontological reckoning is always constitutive. The activity of modern academic theory is a reification that such constitution can be overcome or changed, despite its argumentative semantic content (see. Lyotard as well as Haroway and Barad). X —-referring to the previous linked essay by Thomas-Pellicer, Ruth, De Lucia, Vito (2016) This rhetoric…

  • Postmodern Academics and …

    I can’t count the number of times I’ve defended Postmodernism (PoMo) from attack, so I am publishing this, so I can link to it. Perhaps I am not … Descriptive Postmodernism —- Exclellent points! I agree. and I too have been known to appear to overgeneralize postmodernism. Mostly, though, So far is out right rejection,…

  • The Critique of a Mistaken Synthetical A Priori Knowledge

    If Kant gave us a first bifurcation, and Ludwig Wittgenstein gave us the second, then Michel Foucault gives us the third. From Foucault we have the subsequent “post modern” discourses which then evidences what we could call ‘structural’ bifurcation; which is to say, that which becomes bifurcated is the ability to have a view due…

  • The postmodern condition: Google is Manipulating You – Putting You in Their “Filter Bubble.

    Google is Manipulating You – Putting You in Their “Filter Bubble” http://josephratliff.com/google-filter-bubble/ — Read on josephratliff.com/google-filter-bubble/ This blog, this video and the producer of the video, The fact of them now, bring up many issues, and more than whether or not Google search engine is biased and whether or not we’re being manipulated. Let me…

  • The New Christianity: Theological “Strawmen” and The deeper look into the Psychologist who shall not be named.

    I think this will be the last energy I spend on JP. The less energy given toward his name the better, I think. But one last thing… I think we can have little more doubt that JP is supplying a new philosophical ground for Christianity; indeed, I might say that he is a theological philosopher.…

  • Standing in wonderment: The case against the psychologist who shall not be named (JP 😉).

    I am intrigued about this Jordan Peterson phenomenon and so I’m trying to at least invest a little time into finding out what he is really saying. So above is a little clip of him on the Bill Maher show. I got to say that Bill Maher just clicked down a few notches on my…

  • The Unconscious Mind, Part 2

    Here is the link to the part one post concerning the unconscious mind. It seems obvious. An Unconsciousness seems to be a good name for what is occurring in oneself, as a feature of the mind: There is this, in a way, Whole Consciousness which is made up of parts which are functioning at all…

  • Stephen Hicks: Cool Dude, but…

    Responding to Stephen Hicks and the Criticisms of “Postmodernism” Responding to Stephen Hicks and the Criticisms of “Postmodernism” — Read on iambobbyy.com/2019/03/03/responding-to-stephen-hicks-and-the-criticisms-of-postmodernism/ Glazing over his two hour lecture, I’d say this guy represents a good position against Postmodernism. I like it: It is an excellent showing of how conventional philosophy is indeed following it’s inevitable…

  • Commenting on a Philosopher without giving him more undue celebrity.

    I had an opportunity this morning to confront one of my biases. This one was about THe-Philosopher-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named (TPNN for short). Look in the comments of my pervious post about Derrida for a short video of a piece of one of his talks. I historically disliked TPNN Becuase I feel he is missing a key component…