#postmodernism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #postmodernism, aggregated by home.social.
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“Then along came Austin Spare, who identified the basic sleight of mind techniques underlying all forms of magic, and showed us that we could treat the whole baroque symbolism of magic as entirely optional. Spare invented the Postmodernist approach to magic well before the cultural advent of Existentialism or Postmodernism.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/04/28/then-along-came-austin-spare-who-identified-the-basic-sleight-of-mind-techniques-underlying-all-forms-of-magic-and-showed-us-that-we-could-treat-the-whole-baroque-symbolism-of-magic-as-entirely-op/ #allForms #alongCame #AustinOsmanSpare #AustinSpare #baroqueSymbolism #basic #BodyMindSpirit #book #chaosMagic #culturalAdvent #entirelyOptional #existentialism #identified #invented #magic #MagicStudies #mindTechniques #NewAgeMysticism #occultism #PeterJCarroll #philHine #Postmodernism #PostmodernistApproach #quote #showed #sleight #SpiritualityReligion #treat #underlying #wellBefore #WesternOccultism #whole -
C20 Society calls for listing of 1990s PoMo Canary Wharf building
In a consultation last month, the C20 society said it ‘strongly recommended’ listing 10 Cabot Square, a 10-storey…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #CanaryWharf #CanaryWharfGroup #GreatBritain #Howells #london #Postmodernism #TwentiethCenturySociety
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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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#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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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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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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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.
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LCVM25-01, acrylic and collage on paper,
15,7 x 11,6 inches / 39,8 x 29,5 cm
#painting #peinturecollage #peintureabstraite #peinturecontemporaine #postmodernist #postmodernism #blueartwork #bluepainting #lineart #colorpainting #abstractart #abstractpainting -
Another 100th birthday already: John Fowles, author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Magus" & many other Postmodern novels, was #BOTD 100 years ago.
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The value of the #Fediverse comes from its cultural roots in the #openweb
YOU can’t do social change or challenge without annoying people If you think you can, you’re probably play-acting - and part of the problem - does that annoy you? If it does… maybe sit with that. 🙂 Food for thought, #4opens is a shovel for composting. The value of the #Fediverse comes from its cultural roots in the #openweb. The tech - like ActivityPub - grew out of that culture. It wasn’t built by #mainstreaming interests. Now money is flowing in, and with it comes risk of […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-value-of-the-fediverse-comes-from-its-cultural-roots-in-the-openweb/
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Sorry, Jean Baudrillard — Trump's war with Iran is taking place https://www.thenecessaryfictions.com/p/trumps-war-on-iran-is-actually-taking
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Anything that gets in the way of clear communications...is f*ck!ng stupid.
But don't take my word for it, just ask "them".
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“Illuminated by lightning flashes of descriptive brilliance, Brown’s prose evokes melodrama, Greek tragedy and postmodern alienation…”
You can download a free ebook edition of THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS from @gutenberg_org
7/7
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25876
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #postmodernism
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The House with the Green Shutters
Shown on BBC2 in 1989 as part of the “Edinburgh Nights” Edinburgh festival series by Communicado Theatre, the company’s first touring show
Act Two
6/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQSHGdWAb_U
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #postmodernism #drama #theatre
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The House with the Green Shutters
Shown on BBC2 in 1989 as part of the “Edinburgh Nights” Edinburgh festival series by Communicado Theatre, the company’s first touring show
Act One
5/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfo2R1RGt9g
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #postmodernism #drama #theatre
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“Perhaps because Scotland is placed geographically and linguistically at the periphery of the United Kingdom by an Anglo-centric vision, Scottish writers often write from and about particular places”
‘Location and dis-location in George Douglas Brown’s The House with the Green Shutters”
Benjamine Toussaint, Études anglaises 70/4, 20174/7
https://shs.cairn.info/article/E_ETAN_704_0429?lang=en&ID_ARTICLE=E_ETAN_704_0429
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #postmodernism
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“To pick up a pen is to place oneself outside the community… it is not really possible to write about community and remain uncompromised”
—read Dorothy McMillan’s essay “Rural Realism”, on George Douglas Brown’s THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/05/rural-realism/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #postmodernism
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“I remember the first novel in English I read through was a Scottish novel called THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS. […] When I read that, I wanted to be Scotch.”
—Jorge Luis Borges, interviewed by The Paris Review in July 1966
2/7
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4331/the-art-of-fiction-no-39-jorge-luis-borges
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #postmodernism #Borges #JorgeLuisBorges
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George Douglas Brown (1869–1902) was born #OTD, 26 January – best known for his 1901 novel THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS:
“…the TRAINSPOTTING of its day… an angry young man’s response to the misrepresentation of contemporary Scottish life”
A 🎂 🧵
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https://list.co.uk/news/39535/george-douglas-brown-the-house-with-the-green-shutters-1901
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #postmodernism
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Donald Trump is almost perfectly defined by the very thing his cult proclaimed was a ”dangerous left-wing radical ideology”.
But the ironic detachment as described by the aesthetic & social theories of #postmodernism, has not been expressed more thoroughly by any other #dictator, like it has been by Donald Trump.
His fumbling, incompetence & foolishness are the expressions of ironic detachment which his audience find familiar, soothing, edgy and contemporary.
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The rise of #stupidindividualism as a common sense path
Part of the shitty mess we’re in comes from the failure of #DIY culture and the rise of #stupidindividualism as the common sense path. #stupidindividualism is completely unscalable in social terms. It fragments, isolates, and exhausts. That isn’t accidental, it’s a classic divide-and-control strategy of the #deathcult. And we need to consciously step away, and away, and far away from this. An example, over the last 20 years, I’ve answered the same questions individually, over and […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-rise-of-stupidindividualism-as-a-mainstream-path/
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Morality isn’t a cosmic scoreboard. It’s social signalling with badges of power stitched in.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/26/good-bad-and-the-quiet-arithmetic-of-power/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
In this post, I dismantle the cosy story that ‘good’ and ‘bad’ map onto metaphysical truths, and show how authority collapses complexity into a verdict and calls it reality.
#Philosophy #Ethics #MoralPhilosophy #CriticalTheory #Postmodernism #PowerDynamics #EnlightenmentCritique #blog #podcast #spotify -
Morality isn’t a cosmic scoreboard. It’s social signalling with badges of power stitched in.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/26/good-bad-and-the-quiet-arithmetic-of-power/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
In this post, I dismantle the cosy story that ‘good’ and ‘bad’ map onto metaphysical truths, and show how authority collapses complexity into a verdict and calls it reality.
#Philosophy #Ethics #MoralPhilosophy #CriticalTheory #Postmodernism #PowerDynamics #EnlightenmentCritique #blog #podcast #spotify -
What happens when a bored #language philosopher chats it up with a GPT and invents a new word – sort of? Find out.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/02/the-xand-manifesto/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #satire #llm #words #postmodernism #humour #serious #test #ai #confusion #linguistics #xand #xor #culture #influencer
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New essay: The Rhetoric of Evil, a deflationary account of how the word 'evil' persists long after the metaphysics that birthed it evaporated.
Through the MEOW framework I track how entities conspire to reify a term that explains nothing yet structures everything.
🐉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/29/announcing-the-rhetoric-of-evil/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=meow
#philosophy #moral #psychology #secularism #critique #genealogy #postmodernism #LIH #MEOW #ontology #rhetoric #ethics #metaphysics #criticaltheory #essay #blog #podcast #politics #theory -
I’ve been up all night building something I probably should have left to saner versions of myself: a custom GPT that actually internalises my Mediated Encounter Ontology (MEOW) and my forthcoming Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH).
#philosophy #language #gpt #Ontology #Epistemology #GenerativeAI #PhilosophyOfMind #SocialTheory #Modernity #Postmodernism #StructuralAnalysis #SystemsThinking #Amwriting #blog #podcast #Chatgpt #model #culture #analysis #psychology
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I’ve been up all night building something I probably should have left to saner versions of myself: a custom GPT that actually internalises my Mediated Encounter Ontology (MEOW) and my forthcoming Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH).
#philosophy #language #gpt #Ontology #Epistemology #GenerativeAI #PhilosophyOfMind #SocialTheory #Modernity #Postmodernism #StructuralAnalysis #SystemsThinking #Amwriting #blog #podcast #Chatgpt #model #culture #analysis #psychology
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I’ve been up all night building something I probably should have left to saner versions of myself: a custom GPT that actually internalises my Mediated Encounter Ontology (MEOW) and my forthcoming Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH).
#philosophy #language #gpt #Ontology #Epistemology #GenerativeAI #PhilosophyOfMind #SocialTheory #Modernity #Postmodernism #StructuralAnalysis #SystemsThinking #Amwriting #blog #podcast #Chatgpt #model #culture #analysis #psychology
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I’ve been up all night building something I probably should have left to saner versions of myself: a custom GPT that actually internalises my Mediated Encounter Ontology (MEOW) and my forthcoming Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH).
#philosophy #language #gpt #Ontology #Epistemology #GenerativeAI #PhilosophyOfMind #SocialTheory #Modernity #Postmodernism #StructuralAnalysis #SystemsThinking #Amwriting #blog #podcast #Chatgpt #model #culture #analysis #psychology
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I’ve been up all night building something I probably should have left to saner versions of myself: a custom GPT that actually internalises my Mediated Encounter Ontology (MEOW) and my forthcoming Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH).
#philosophy #language #gpt #Ontology #Epistemology #GenerativeAI #PhilosophyOfMind #SocialTheory #Modernity #Postmodernism #StructuralAnalysis #SystemsThinking #Amwriting #blog #podcast #Chatgpt #model #culture #analysis #psychology
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🌈 Parable of the Last Unicorn.🏳️🌈
Blog post with an audio reading of this story. I'll be posting some critical theory analysis presently, starting on Saturday morning-ish.https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/21/the-last-unicorn/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #epistemology #culture #society #consensus #unicorn #parable #amwriting #amreading #amlistening #blog #podcast #history #psychology #technology #instruments #construction #foundation #language #modernism #modernity #perception #power #reality #politics #identity #postmodernism #video
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First in a series of 5 articles.
Perspectival Realism is my attempt to build an ontology without the usual apologetic asterisk. Reality exists; we never meet it directly; mediation is inescapable; progress is still possible. No kings, no foundations, no Enlightenment bravado. Just the sober business of navigating constraint through perspective.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/20/perspectival-realism-the-first-ontology-without-an-asterisk//?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social#philosophy #epistemology #ontology #postmodernism #perspective #reality #constraints #cognition #language #psychology
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Discourse didn’t die from censorship.
It died from convenience — from reacting faster than we can think.
A new essay on capitalism, comment sections, and the death of thought.🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/11/10/when-nobody-reads-capitalism-comment-sections-and-the-death-of-discourse
#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Capitalism #Postmodernism #AntiEnlightenment #blog #psychology #AttentionEconomy #amwriting #apology #cancer #society #socialmedia #LinkedIn #criticalthinking #communication
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#KatzenjammerKabarett is a French four-piece #darkCabaret band from #Paris, France. Aesthetically inspired by #German #Weimarera #cabarets and #burlesque shows, the band's name is of German origin and literally translates to "cat's wail cabaret"; Katzenjammer also generally means "discordant sound" and is used as a synonym for a #hangover. The band's other stylistic influences include #Dadaism, #Futurism, #Symbolism and #Postmodernism.
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Capitalism doesn’t kill with guns or gulags. It kills with forms, policy, and plausible deniability. The machine is efficient precisely because no one feels responsible. When an insurance executive cuts 'unprofitable' coverage, it’s not an atrocity – it’s 'cost optimisation'.
#Philosophy #Politics #Capitalism #Ethics #Violence #Accountability #CriticalTheory #Postmodernism #AntiEnlightenment #society #Blog #psychology #humancondition #healthcare #systems
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In the next issue of Schmalk magazine: Michaelina Wautier’s Triumph of Bacchus (1650) meets modern politics.
Our author Giorgio Vasari writes an allegorical poem connecting Bacchus—the god of intoxication and collective frenzy—to the spectacle of 2025’s world stage.
From divine ecstasy to political delirium, the procession continues.
#Schmalk #MichaelinaWautier #Bacchus #ArtHistory #Culture #Politics #Allegory #Philosophy #CulturalCritique #Postmodernism #VisualCulture
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I wrote The Metanarrative Problem four years ago, tracing how Enlightenment reason became the last acceptable superstition.
A recent Roumanian essay cited it — proof that not all echoes are empty.
https://philosophics.blog/2021/03/07/metanarrative-problem/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#Philosophy #Postmodernism #Metanarrative #CriticalTheory #Enlightenment #Culture #Psychology #Purpose #Raison
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New from the Postmodern Set: Freedom — Enchantment: Social Contract
Rousseau’s paradox remains alive: we are born free and everywhere bound.
Freedom isn’t lawlessness—it’s shared constraint, the fragile enchantment that keeps us human.#Philosophy #Rousseau #Freedom #SocialContract #CriticalTheory #psychology #society #politics #Postmodernism #Philosophics #mtg #parody #satire
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New card in the Critical Theory parody set: Language Game
Wittgenstein’s warning still stands: meaning isn’t a thing, it’s a use.
We live in the friction between saying and doing, countering and reframing.👉 https://www.instagram.com/p/DQi2rvWjucT/
#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Wittgenstein #Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Postmodernism #Constructivism #Philosophics #Epistemology #Meaning #Society #Communication #Instagram #MTG
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(1/2) On July 4th 2026, the United States turns 250.
To mark the occasion, the government unveils its plan for a new America-centric calendar system — one in which 1776 becomes Year 0.
A short story about the power of time-keeping by Schmalk author W. Dupris.
#Schmalk #SpeculativeFiction #PoliticalSatire #US250 #AmericanEmpire #CalendarReform #Dystopia #CulturalCritique #Postmodernism #Philosophy #USA250 #America250
