To be read while listening to the Beastie Boys, Sabotage, at full tilt. Speakers, not earbuds you nit-wit. In the beginning, circa 1989-93ish, post-modernism was out of step with mainstream academia. Derrida was a curiosity. Baudrillard was simply too dense to understand. (Confession: Baudrillard’s book, “The Gulf War Did Not Take Place,” is actually damned […]
Philosophy and Ideology
~by Sean Paul Kelley Couple of random notes this Friday morning, mostly economics related, some silver news and my personal reaction to portions of the discusssion in Ian’s “Is Virtue An Advantage Or Disadvantage For Societies?” post. First, econonomics. It looks more and more like we are heading into a 2008-style credit crisis/crunch. Don’t believe […]
Until I went back to graduate school 12 years ago, I really had little exposure to post-modern thought. Let’s just say after getting my master’s I’m very familiar with it now. It just wasn’t taught in the 90s when I got my bachelors. But now? I got a rude awakening. Post-modern thought is not a […]