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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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How did Baudrillard justify the existence of a "fundamental" reality?
The postmodern semiotic concept of hyperreality was contentiously coined by Baudrillard in Simulacra and Simulation. Baudrillard defined "hyperreality" as "the generation by models of a ...
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Looking for a book to compliment Zammito and Mohanty in understanding the ethos of post positivistic realism
There are two books which I consider to be indispensable to an understanding of
contemporary western culture’s post-truth/alternative facts (scientific and cultural post modernism/structuralism/...
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Are there any good sources that would help me read Lacan's Seminar XVII?
I've been interested in psychoanalysis for the past year or so; I've read a little bit of Freud (the introductory lectures, the case study on the Rat Man, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and about half ...
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Is there no basis for differentiating a personal from a historical narrative?
Is there no basis for differentiating a personal from a historical narrative? My narrative is a mess, so I'd like to get to grips with the question, ideally as it links to literature. Who in ...
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Would Carl Jung be considered a postmodernist?
All of Jung's colleagues were modernists, primarily because postmodernism wasn't around yet; they were all Freudian, and, as such, followed the Oedipal grand narrative. Jung, however, had a completely ...
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What does Baudrillard mean by "The end of the Social"?
In Simulacra and Simulation (as well, I am told, as in many other works), Baudrillard speaks with the typical obscurity of a French-English translation of the end of society and the "End of the ...
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How does post-humanism deal with Kants Copernican turn?
Presumably as a term it decentres the human subject as inherited from Renaissance humanism; this continuing the Copernican revolution of decentring the human habitus. This suggests it bypasses Kants ...
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What does Baudrillard propose to do with realization of Simulacra?
There's literally the quote on the wiki page on Simulacra and Simulation:
..The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the
truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is ...
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What is the difference between operatic, operative, and operational from Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation?
The following is the conclusion from the chapter Simulacra and Science Fiction. I did not understand it, and such a specific categorization seemed unusual to me. I was hoping someone might be able to ...
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Does Critical Theories (CRT, Queer Studies etc.) come from the Frankfurt school or post-modernism?
I know post colonial studies which is a critical theory began with Orientalism which uses Foucault's concept of discourse. But also Frankfurt School is widely credited with finding critical theory ...
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What does postmodernism say about Human Nature?
Chomsky who is anti-postmodernism believes humans have a nature which makes them inherently creative which can be achieved in a free society. This is in opposition to Foucault who talks bout the ...
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Is it possible to reconcile the Enlightenment with post-modernism especially the work of Derrida?
I am referring to Derrida's response to Sokal where he claims his work does not criticize the Enlightenment.
However, given the enlightenment promoted the attitude that there existed truths, which ...
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Unconventional/underground philosophy
Are there any modern concepts of unconventional philosophy?
I endeavour to keep up with all modern books and scholars, yet I have no idea about "underground philosophy"?
Do you know ...
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Does postmodernism hold that science is one social narrative among many, no better or worse than any other way of knowing?
I'm reading postmodern theory, and it seems to be all allusion and beating around the bush. I'm having a hard time getting at what the foundational ideas are. One thing I have heard is that ...
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