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In a few months’ time it will be precisely one year from my date of graduation. I have not achieved a single thing that has really brought me closer to actually advancing towards my goals in life. I originally started the year off with the intent of pulling myself out of debt, only [...]

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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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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 [...]

Filed under: academics, culture, film, philosophy by Jesse
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