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Postmodernism

  • Post Modernism (d)

    Fourth in a series on postmodernism, the author speculates that some Westerners call mathematics racist out of fear it favours ‘brown’ cultures in a new AI economy, and relates maths…

    AnAn9 November 20199 comments
  • Post Modernism (c)

    A video post in which Camille Paglia, with Jordan Peterson nodding along, calls postmodernism a rejection of 1960s radicalism, India, Hinduism, consciousness and the body, asking readers about its psychological…

    AnAn27 November 20180 comments
  • American Caste (a)

    Defending his phrase ‘caucasian intelligentsia’, the author draws on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali on the ‘white liberal’, and argues that postmodernism, a colonial tool, damages the self-confidence of Black…

    AnAn9 September 20184 comments
  • Post Modernism (a)

    The author recommends Stephen Hicks’s lecture tracing postmodernism from Kant, Nietzsche and Marx to the post-1956 crisis of the Left, and summarises what he sees as its inconsistencies on truth,…

    AnAn2 July 20182 comments
  • Post Modernist attack against muslims, darkies, India, America and the world

    The author dismisses India’s 136th place in the World Press Freedom Index as a ‘post modernist hatchet job’, arguing that India protects Muslim speech better than Nordic hate-speech regimes and…

    AnAn22 June 201823 comments
  • Rising global caste and tribalism

    The author points to a discussion between Amy Chua and Michael Shermer on rising global tribalism, which he equates with caste, and asks readers what drives it, suggesting postmodernism is…

    AnAn21 June 20180 comments
  • American Caste

    The author contrasts scholar Daria Roithmayr’s view of America as having four castes, where inherited social capital drives outcomes, with Glenn Loury’s emphasis on class over caste, and suggests discussing…

    AnAn7 June 201817 comments
  • Intellectual Dark Web

    The author defines the ‘intellectual dark web’ as a convergence of thinkers from the European enlightenment, hard sciences, technology and eastern philosophy, lists its supposed members including Razib Khan, and…

    BP Admin Team · opened by AnAn14 May 201821 comments
  • Welcome back Mahathir Mohamad, Hero of Asia!

    The author welcomes Mahathir Mohamad back as Malaysia’s prime minister, praising him as an elder statesman who made Malaysia rich and diverse, and presents the country as pro-business, pro-globalisation and…

    AnAn11 May 201823 comments
  • Post Modernism

    The poster introduces a long video conversation between Farhan Qureshi and a Hindu on Hinduism and postmodernism, arguing that Dharma’s open architecture is a truer realisation of postmodernism’s goals.

    AnAn11 March 20185 comments
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