StrypeyMay 20

I've just started listening to the uncut (3 hour!) version of a lecture by Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London, on What is (or was) ‘Postmodernism’? Recorded fot the Culture, Power, Politics podcast;

https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2020/12/20/what-is-or-was-postmodernism-3-hour-version/

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What is (or was) ‘Postmodernism’? – 3 hour version!

I volunteered to record a lecture on ‘Postmodernism’ after Tory minister Liz Truss denounced it this week. This is the long version. The short, 1-hour version immediately precedes this …

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Gilbert starts out by mentioning that most critics of postmodernism associate it with extreme relativism. Which reminds me of an insight in 1 of Ken Wilber's books, where Wilber says that the only thing a committed relativist considers universal is the correctness of relativism. It's a paradox I've found fascinating ever since.

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May 20 at 11:55pmWeb