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Subversive language and the role of philosophy

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

“I am writing a book.” This is not as creative, interesting, or impressive as it actually sounds, so in my day-to-day interactions I like to just leave it at that. “I am writing a book.” If pressed for details, I’ll reveal that it’s a Korean history book. The rights to this [...]

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On favoring complexity

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The latest round of criticism for the postmodern thought camp, perhaps surprisingly, isn’t coming from the anthropologists and historians and sociologists–the people who probably have the most to lose if we actually take what postmodernism is saying and apply it accordingly. It’s actually coming more from the hard sciences. Alan Sokal’s Intellectual Impostures [...]

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Make yourself criticism-proof: become a critic!

Monday, March 12, 2007

The field of cultural theory started at an indefinite point in the not-so-distant past, somewhere during the period of the great debates over linguistic structuralism. Some might peg it on Barthes and his work on cultural mythologies. Others might cite Baudrillard’s study on the sociology of consumption. No matter where you put that point [...]

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