In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...
Postmodern theory may be the most loathed concept ever to have emerged from academia. Developed within literature and philosophy departments in the 1970s, it supposedly told us that facts were ...
From opaque theory to giddily playful fiction by Chris Kraus and Salman Rushdie, the era that followed modernism is as much about politics as art In 1996 Andrew C Bulhak of Monash University created a ...
As pundits and scholars come to terms with the new “post-truth” era, the fingers point to a familiar intellectual culprit: postmodernism. Columnist Paul Waldman, writing in The American Prospect, ...
Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory—an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction ...
The term postmodernism is a mouthful, to say and to understand, but it is a critical concept to make sense of our world today, especially in the U.S. and especially since 1960. Britanica.com defines ...
Postmodern and posthuman ecocriticism reframe literature and ecology by decentring humans and recognising dynamic, ...
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...
Postmodernism is a big, cumbersome word, but that’s fitting because the concept is big and cumbersome. The fact is, however, we are living in this “ism” right now. As Bob Dylan summed it up at the ...
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