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A bonus minimalist shot from the Groninger Museum. #postmodernism at its best.
#photography #architecture #architecturephotography #Groningen #minimalism #minimalistphotography
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A bonus minimalist shot from the Groninger Museum. #postmodernism at its best.
#photography #architecture #architecturephotography #Groningen #minimalism #minimalistphotography
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We live in a #deathcult rooted in 45 years of #neoliberalism and #postmodernism. Until we understand those roots, we'll keep mistaking the symptoms for the disease.
Today's "reasonable" politics to often feels like lost people, each individually thrashing through the same thorny bush. The problem isn't the people, it's the roots feeding the mess.
Cut those roots, and the old growth dries out. But history reminds us: when old systems collapse, the fire can spread in dangerous directions if we don't build something better first.
That's why we need the #openweb, #4opens and #OMN - not just to critique the old world, but to grow the next one. #climatechaos #KISS
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We live in a #deathcult rooted in 45 years of #neoliberalism and #postmodernism. Until we understand those roots, we'll keep mistaking the symptoms for the disease.
Today's "reasonable" politics to often feels like lost people, each individually thrashing through the same thorny bush. The problem isn't the people, it's the roots feeding the mess.
Cut those roots, and the old growth dries out. But history reminds us: when old systems collapse, the fire can spread in dangerous directions if we don't build something better first.
That's why we need the #openweb, #4opens and #OMN - not just to critique the old world, but to grow the next one. #climatechaos #KISS
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5/5 Groninger Museum
An opulent entrance to part of the Groninger Museum.
#photography #architecture #postmodernism #architecturephotography
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5/5 Groninger Museum
An opulent entrance to part of the Groninger Museum.
#photography #architecture #postmodernism #architecturephotography
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4/5 Groninger Museum
Looking up at a light fitting in the cafe, where the lights fall from a mirror for more attention to detail of the design of absolutely everything in the Groninger Museum in the north of the Netherlands.
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4/5 Groninger Museum
Looking up at a light fitting in the cafe, where the lights fall from a mirror for more attention to detail of the design of absolutely everything in the Groninger Museum in the north of the Netherlands.
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3/5 Groninger Museum
I've always liked a good corridor shot.
#photography #architecture #postmodernism #architecturephotography
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3/5 Groninger Museum
I've always liked a good corridor shot.
#photography #architecture #postmodernism #architecturephotography
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2/5 Groninger Museum
One of the best things about the museum is the attention to detail thoughout. This snap looks up into a decorative shaft.
#photography #architecture #postmodernism #architecturephotography
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2/5 Groninger Museum
One of the best things about the museum is the attention to detail thoughout. This snap looks up into a decorative shaft.
#photography #architecture #postmodernism #architecturephotography
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1/5 Groninger Museum
Back to my Dutch trip for snaps from the Groninger Museum - a post-modernist delight. Not always a pomo fan, but if you are going to do it go completely over the top.#photography #architecture #postmodernism #architecturephotography
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1/5 Groninger Museum
Back to my Dutch trip for snaps from the Groninger Museum - a post-modernist delight. Not always a pomo fan, but if you are going to do it go completely over the top.#photography #architecture #postmodernism #architecturephotography
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This was my thinking on the Fediverse a few years ago – building commons
The #Fediverse is an accidental reboot of the #openweb, it wasn't designed from the top down, it emerged because thousands of people built alternatives to the #dotcons. That's its greatest strength, it's also why it's so messy. Herding cats - the #Fediverse has no central authority, every project, server, and community has its own priorities, culture, and governance. It's often like herding cats. This can be frustrating, but it's also what makes the network resilient. There is no single […]https://hamishcampbell.com/this-was-my-thinking-on-the-fediverse-a-few-years-ago-building-commons/
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The Silence of Friday: How J.M. Coetzee Flipped the Script on Robinson Crusoe
In 1986, South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee looked at Crusoe’s island and saw something entirely different: the blueprint for colonial trauma. -
The Silence of Friday: How J.M. Coetzee Flipped the Script on Robinson Crusoe
In 1986, South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee looked at Crusoe’s island and saw something entirely different: the blueprint for colonial trauma. -
'the literature of modernism generally stood apart from and was critical of the market. Postmodern literature is part of the market and may even celebrate it. Characteristic of the postmodern is “a new kind of flatness or depthlessness, a new kind of superficiality in the most literal sense…”...such depthlessness applies to human experience as well, yielding individuals more likely to be recognized as fragmented or schizophrenic than alienated'
#culture #postmodernism #polycrisis #clusterfuck
https://againstthecurrent.org/atc236/fredric-jamesons-innovative-marxism/
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'the literature of modernism generally stood apart from and was critical of the market. Postmodern literature is part of the market and may even celebrate it. Characteristic of the postmodern is “a new kind of flatness or depthlessness, a new kind of superficiality in the most literal sense…”...such depthlessness applies to human experience as well, yielding individuals more likely to be recognized as fragmented or schizophrenic than alienated'
#culture #postmodernism #polycrisis #clusterfuck
https://againstthecurrent.org/atc236/fredric-jamesons-innovative-marxism/
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Our failure to mediate the mess
The current #AI boom is built on a huge contradiction, you can see this in #mainstreaming terms. That AI companies are not paying the real costs of what they consume. They haven't paid for the copyrighted material they trained on. They haven't paid the environmental costs of the water and electricity they use. They haven't paid for the pressure they place on public infrastructure, or for the social costs of flooding the web with synthetic content. Yet AI services are sold below their true […] -
This paper examines poem "Death of a Philosopher" – a parody of postmodernist thinkers. It is shown how meter and allusions are used to turn an elegy into a conservative attack on postmodern. The poem's rhythm echoes "God's Judgment on a Bishop" – framing postmodernists as intellectual frauds deserving cosmic punishment.
nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/judgement.pdf
#Tsvetkov #Postmodernism #Baudrillard #RussianPoetry #Zhukovsky #Marshak #Philosophy #Parody #LiteraryCriticism
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This paper examines poem "Death of a Philosopher" – a parody of postmodernist thinkers. It is shown how meter and allusions are used to turn an elegy into a conservative attack on postmodern. The poem's rhythm echoes "God's Judgment on a Bishop" – framing postmodernists as intellectual frauds deserving cosmic punishment.
nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/judgement.pdf
#Tsvetkov #Postmodernism #Baudrillard #RussianPoetry #Zhukovsky #Marshak #Philosophy #Parody #LiteraryCriticism
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i've long wanted to read a thorough, laser focused indictment of post modern theory. unfortunately that book could exist and i wouldn't know and if i did i probly wouldn't have the patience to read to the end
was just reading the intro and dedication of marc bloch's historian's craft and occurred to me that part of the reason norms and such are flying apart from what seems like centrifugal forces might be that we seem to have switched into a mode whereby history no longer has any purchase
if the record of the past is largely meaningless (or little more than a curiosity) then it doesn't matter so much what we do in the moment, whether an individual or an institution
#history #postmodernism #relativism #stopTheWorldAhWannaGetOff
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i've long wanted to read a thorough, laser focused indictment of post modern theory. unfortunately that book could exist and i wouldn't know and if i did i probly wouldn't have the patience to read to the end
was just reading the intro and dedication of marc bloch's historian's craft and occurred to me that part of the reason norms and such are flying apart from what seems like centrifugal forces might be that we seem to have switched into a mode whereby history no longer has any purchase
if the record of the past is largely meaningless (or little more than a curiosity) then it doesn't matter so much what we do in the moment, whether an individual or an institution
#history #postmodernism #relativism #stopTheWorldAhWannaGetOff
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Rick Roderick: The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA
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Rick Roderick: The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA
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Rebuilding Shared Meaning in a Fragmented World
A lot of our current mess can be understood through the long transition from #modernism to #postmodernism. Not as an academic debate, but as a lived reality. Modernity was about progress. It believed that society could be understood, improved, and consciously shaped. Science, democracy, planning, industry, public institutions, trade unions, education, and infrastructure were all part of this path. The future was something people could build together. Of course, this vision was never as […]https://hamishcampbell.com/rebuilding-shared-meaning-in-a-fragmented-world/
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“The Century of Gehry”: Frank Gehry Retrospective Opens at the Serralves Museum in Porto
DZ Bank, Berlin (Germany). Image Courtesy of Frank O. Gehry & Gehry Desig…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #Exhibition #frankgehry #FrankO.Gehry #GehryPartners #MuseudeArteContemporâneadeSerralves #porto #Portugal #Postmodernism #Retrospective #SerralvesFoundation #SerralvesMuseumofContemporaryArt #UK #UnitedKingdom
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#Nicenasty the hidden power of soft obstruction
People think in groups, that's normal. The mistake isn't group thinking itself, it's pretending we're all isolated individuals while still acting through tribes, identities, and social blocs. A lot of today's "common sense" comes from the #stupidindividualism group mindset. We are encouraged to see every problem through individual choices rather than collective realities. The real question isn't "how do we stop group thinking?" It's "what do we do with it?" This mess is something we need to […]https://hamishcampbell.com/nicenasty-the-hidden-power-of-soft-obstruction/
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#Nicenasty the hidden power of soft obstruction
People think in groups, that's normal. The mistake isn't group thinking itself, it's pretending we're all isolated individuals while still acting through tribes, identities, and social blocs. A lot of today's "common sense" comes from the #stupidindividualism group mindset. We are encouraged to see every problem through individual choices rather than collective realities. The real question isn't "how do we stop group thinking?" It's "what do we do with it?" This mess is something we need to […]https://hamishcampbell.com/nicenasty-the-hidden-power-of-soft-obstruction/
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“Other Ways of Knowing”: How Epistemic Relativism Dismantles Civilisation
The Seductive Lie: “All Knowledge Systems Are Equal”
Epistemic relativism sounds compassionate and inclusive on the surface. It promises to honour indigenous traditions, validate lived experience, and democratise knowledge. But beneath the soft language lies a corrosive idea: truth is no longer something to be discovered; it is something to be allocated.
Once you accept that all knowledge systems are equal, you must also accept that:
- empirical evidence is optional
- falsifiability is colonial
- criticism is oppression
- the scientific method is just one “cultural perspective” among many
This is not pluralism. It is the abandonment of standards.
The Scientific Method: Humanity’s Hard‑Won Breakthrough
Civilisation advanced because we discovered a brutal, unforgiving truth: nature does not care about your feelings, your culture, or your ancestors.
The scientific method works because it is:
- testable
- falsifiable
- replicable
- predictive
- self‑correcting
It is the only epistemic system in human history that reliably produces:
- electricity
- medicine
- engineering
- agriculture
- sanitation
- modern life
Every alternative “way of knowing” has failed to produce these outcomes.
What Epistemic Relativism Actually Does
When institutions claim that all knowledge systems are equal, they are not elevating indigenous knowledge; they are downgrading science.
This shift has predictable consequences:
A. Science becomes optional
If whale songs and whale oil can be funded as “research,” then evidence no longer matters.
B. Criticism becomes taboo
If a knowledge system is tied to identity, then questioning it becomes “racist,” “colonial,” or “harmful.”
C. Education becomes indoctrination
Students are taught what to think, not how to think.
D. Institutions become ideological
Universities, ministries, and research bodies stop pursuing truth and start pursuing narrative compliance.
E. Public money is wasted
Millions are spent on projects that cannot be tested, falsified, or replicated.
The New Priesthood: Critical Pedagogy and “Lived Experience”
Epistemic relativism is not an accident; it is a deliberate ideological project.
Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory, and postmodernism all share a core belief: objective truth is a tool of oppression.
Once you accept that premise, the scientific method becomes:
- colonial
- patriarchal
- Eurocentric
- oppressive
And “lived experience” becomes the new authority.
This is how we end up with:
- whale songs as kauri medicine
- “gender is a spectrum” taught as scientific fact
- mātauranga Māori treated as equivalent to biology
- “decolonising mathematics”
- “indigenous physics”
- “ancestral astronomy”
It’s not harmless. It’s epistemic sabotage.
The Civilisational Consequences
Civilisations collapse when they lose the ability to distinguish:
- truth from myth
- evidence from narrative
- science from ideology
Rome fell when superstition replaced engineering. The Soviet Union was doomed because ideology replaced economics. We are repeating the pattern.
When a society abandons objective standards, it becomes vulnerable to:
- magical thinking
- political manipulation
- cult behaviour
- institutional decay
- technological stagnation
Epistemic relativism is not inclusive; it is regressive.
The Real Question: What Happens When Reality Pushes Back?
Nature does not negotiate.
- Bridges collapse whether or not you believe in “indigenous engineering.”
- Diseases spread whether or not you believe in “traditional healing.”
- Pathogens kill kauri whether or not you believe they are “losing their mauri.”
- Planes fly because of physics, not whakapapa.
Civilisation survives only when we align our beliefs with reality.
In Summary
“Other ways of knowing” may have cultural value, historical value, or spiritual value, but they are not science. And when governments, universities, and schools pretend otherwise, they are not promoting diversity. They are dismantling the epistemic foundations that keep civilisation functioning.
This is not a culture war issue. It is a survival issue.
#CriticalTheory #MataurangaMaori #PostModernism #Science -
“Other Ways of Knowing”: How Epistemic Relativism Dismantles Civilisation
The Seductive Lie: “All Knowledge Systems Are Equal”
Epistemic relativism sounds compassionate and inclusive on the surface. It promises to honour indigenous traditions, validate lived experience, and democratise knowledge. But beneath the soft language lies a corrosive idea: truth is no longer something to be discovered; it is something to be allocated.
Once you accept that all knowledge systems are equal, you must also accept that:
- empirical evidence is optional
- falsifiability is colonial
- criticism is oppression
- the scientific method is just one “cultural perspective” among many
This is not pluralism. It is the abandonment of standards.
The Scientific Method: Humanity’s Hard‑Won Breakthrough
Civilisation advanced because we discovered a brutal, unforgiving truth: nature does not care about your feelings, your culture, or your ancestors.
The scientific method works because it is:
- testable
- falsifiable
- replicable
- predictive
- self‑correcting
It is the only epistemic system in human history that reliably produces:
- electricity
- medicine
- engineering
- agriculture
- sanitation
- modern life
Every alternative “way of knowing” has failed to produce these outcomes.
What Epistemic Relativism Actually Does
When institutions claim that all knowledge systems are equal, they are not elevating indigenous knowledge; they are downgrading science.
This shift has predictable consequences:
A. Science becomes optional
If whale songs and whale oil can be funded as “research,” then evidence no longer matters.
B. Criticism becomes taboo
If a knowledge system is tied to identity, then questioning it becomes “racist,” “colonial,” or “harmful.”
C. Education becomes indoctrination
Students are taught what to think, not how to think.
D. Institutions become ideological
Universities, ministries, and research bodies stop pursuing truth and start pursuing narrative compliance.
E. Public money is wasted
Millions are spent on projects that cannot be tested, falsified, or replicated.
The New Priesthood: Critical Pedagogy and “Lived Experience”
Epistemic relativism is not an accident; it is a deliberate ideological project.
Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory, and postmodernism all share a core belief: objective truth is a tool of oppression.
Once you accept that premise, the scientific method becomes:
- colonial
- patriarchal
- Eurocentric
- oppressive
And “lived experience” becomes the new authority.
This is how we end up with:
- whale songs as kauri medicine
- “gender is a spectrum” taught as scientific fact
- mātauranga Māori treated as equivalent to biology
- “decolonising mathematics”
- “indigenous physics”
- “ancestral astronomy”
It’s not harmless. It’s epistemic sabotage.
The Civilisational Consequences
Civilisations collapse when they lose the ability to distinguish:
- truth from myth
- evidence from narrative
- science from ideology
Rome fell when superstition replaced engineering. The Soviet Union was doomed because ideology replaced economics. We are repeating the pattern.
When a society abandons objective standards, it becomes vulnerable to:
- magical thinking
- political manipulation
- cult behaviour
- institutional decay
- technological stagnation
Epistemic relativism is not inclusive; it is regressive.
The Real Question: What Happens When Reality Pushes Back?
Nature does not negotiate.
- Bridges collapse whether or not you believe in “indigenous engineering.”
- Diseases spread whether or not you believe in “traditional healing.”
- Pathogens kill kauri whether or not you believe they are “losing their mauri.”
- Planes fly because of physics, not whakapapa.
Civilisation survives only when we align our beliefs with reality.
In Summary
“Other ways of knowing” may have cultural value, historical value, or spiritual value, but they are not science. And when governments, universities, and schools pretend otherwise, they are not promoting diversity. They are dismantling the epistemic foundations that keep civilisation functioning.
This is not a culture war issue. It is a survival issue.
#CriticalTheory #MataurangaMaori #PostModernism #Science -
Rick Roderick "Self under Siege" lectures on (postmodern) philosophy in the 20th century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA
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Rick Roderick "Self under Siege" lectures on (postmodern) philosophy in the 20th century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA
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Just saying something doesn't make it true. To make ideas real you have to confront vested interests, challenge #mainstreaming "common sense", and do the hard social work of change.
Words without action are just wind. Truth is something we struggle for, build, defend, and live.
This is why I'm often frustrated with strands of Western Buddhism and #postmodernism that drift into treating belief, and personal feeling as truth. The world pushes back. Reality pushes back.
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Just saying something doesn't make it true. To make ideas real you have to confront vested interests, challenge #mainstreaming "common sense", and do the hard social work of change.
Words without action are just wind. Truth is something we struggle for, build, defend, and live.
This is why I'm often frustrated with strands of Western Buddhism and #postmodernism that drift into treating belief, and personal feeling as truth. The world pushes back. Reality pushes back.
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#postmodernism: Changing the story doesn't change the world.
#geekproblem: Writing the code doesn't build the community.
#lifecult: Believing in something doesn't make it live.
#OMN: Social processes make things real. Everything else is scaffolding.
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#postmodernism: Changing the story doesn't change the world.
#geekproblem: Writing the code doesn't build the community.
#lifecult: Believing in something doesn't make it live.
#OMN: Social processes make things real. Everything else is scaffolding.
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#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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#postmodernism is the cultural and intellectual current that, by insisting there is no shared truth and all narratives are equally valid, dissolved the foundations needed for collective action - leaving people atomised, cynical, and unable to build the solidarity required for real social change.
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#postmodernism is the cultural and intellectual current that, by insisting there is no shared truth and all narratives are equally valid, dissolved the foundations needed for collective action - leaving people atomised, cynical, and unable to build the solidarity required for real social change.
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believing in a kind of stultifying sameness
that we saw on the news yesterday praying for usI Got The News, by Lewis LaCook https://lewislacook.bandcamp.com/track/i-got-the-news
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believing in a kind of stultifying sameness
that we saw on the news yesterday praying for usI Got The News, by Lewis LaCook https://lewislacook.bandcamp.com/track/i-got-the-news
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #block refers to the reflexive, unconscious tendency of individuals and communities to shut down unfamiliar and challenging ideas, people, and processes - a defensive gesture rooted in #stupidindividualism and #postmodernism that prevents the trust-building and messy collective work needed for real #openweb organising.
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #block refers to the reflexive, unconscious tendency of individuals and communities to shut down unfamiliar and challenging ideas, people, and processes - a defensive gesture rooted in #stupidindividualism and #postmodernism that prevents the trust-building and messy collective work needed for real #openweb organising.
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@revcomintern @youtube.com #Revolution ary #Communist #Internationale #Socialism #Liberation #Postmodernism #KillCapitalism before it kills us. @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] youtube.com/shorts/KZ8hq...
Why post-modernism is reaction... -
I am super psyched to add this book to my reading list. Been wanting to read Fredric Jameson for a few years now.
#bookstodon #culture #postmodernism #theory #capitalism #marxism -
I am super psyched to add this book to my reading list. Been wanting to read Fredric Jameson for a few years now.
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Italo Calvino's 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler' (1979) is rather prophetic in how computer produced content leads to a mass production of random noise, which then is marketed or not based on response. #Calvino #LLM #reversecentaur #postmodernism
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Italo Calvino's 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler' (1979) is rather prophetic in how computer produced content leads to a mass production of random noise, which then is marketed or not based on response. #Calvino #LLM #reversecentaur #postmodernism
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no 1 understands baudrillard less than film critics
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CW: American Politics
Isn’t this a main tenant of #Postmodernism? That everything is meaningful (or meaningless) thus everything is permissible? It’s been awhile since I read #Derrida and other #Postmodernists.
— Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve
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CW: American Politics
Isn’t this a main tenant of #Postmodernism? That everything is meaningful (or meaningless) thus everything is permissible? It’s been awhile since I read #Derrida and other #Postmodernists.
— Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve
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LLMs are a perfect fit for education
(unfortunately).In his Report on Knowledge (1979) Lyotard wrote that in postmodernism the test for knowledge was no longer is it true but is it useful. Marketisation has now ensured that this is the basic premise for higher education.
LLMs are similarly driven not by truthfulness but utility.
LLM and HE is a marriage made in hell.
