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Earther. Postmodernism Did Not Take Place: On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life - Viewpoint Magazine. A specter is haunt­ing North Amer­i­ca — the specter of post­mod­ernism. Or at least, that’s what Jor­dan Peter­son would have you believe. Peter­son, a pro­fes­sor of psy­chol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, has entered into an unholy alliance with all the pow­ers of the alt-right to exor­cise this specter. Though he calls him­self a “British clas­si­cal lib­er­al,” Peterson’s appeal feeds into the most reac­tionary ten­den­cies in con­tem­po­rary pol­i­tics. He rose to fame when he was cap­tured on video at a protest on the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to cam­pus, telling trans­gen­der stu­dents he refused to use gen­der-neu­tral pro­nouns. But Peter­son has just released a new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Anti­dote to Chaos. The new book, as its lis­ti­cle-esque title indi­cates, is a self-help man­u­al. Peter­son traces the dan­gers of post­mod­ernism to a place of ill repute: Paris.

Like all the clas­sic con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries, the anti­semitism here is bare­ly con­cealed. Theconversation. In 1959, the British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow delivered a famously controversial lecture at Cambridge University. He described a post-war schism between two groups — scientists and the literary world. Snow identified this as a newly emergent divide, across which each party was more than happy to sneer at the other: Scientists proudly unable to quote a phrase of Shakespeare, and literary types untroubled by the second law of thermodynamics.

Those divisions within the university seem now more deeply entrenched than ever before. And those working within the arts and the sciences face a third antagonist in society: Populism, with its attendant and increasing distrust of intellectuals. This powder keg occurs in a context of growing economic disparity and, incongruously, the increasing role of technological innovations in our daily life. I’m a computer scientist who studies digital culture. Identifying society’s grand challenges Are these the biggest problems for our society? Did the Anthropocene begin with the deaths of 50 million Native Americans? Salman Rushdie on Paris attack: Religion a ‘medieval form of unreason’ that deserves ‘fearless disrespect’ Don't miss stories. Follow Raw Story! Author Salman Rushdie — who had a fatwa placed on his head after publishing The Satanic Verses in 1988 — made a statement today about the attack on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead.

On Twitter, he wrote: In the linked statement, Rushdie said that “[r]eligion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.” “This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today,” he continued. “I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.” “‘Respect for religion’” has become a code phrase meaning “‘fear of religion,’” Rushdie concluded. Wikipedia globalization. Internet. U.S. Army soldiers "surfing the Internet" at Forward Operating Base Yusifiyah, Iraq The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide.

It is a network of networks[1] that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing and telephony.

Most traditional communications media, including telephony and television, are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol television (IPTV). Terminology Users. Shifting from a Patriarchal to an Earth Centric Paradigm. Earth Centric Paradigm: The polarity of extremist views continues to increase. Fundamentalists tend to blame academics/liberals, claiming we must put God back as central to our government.

The mainstream seem to accuse talk radio and the 24/7 news media, with MSNBC and Fox News whipping hysteria into the right and left wings of our two-party system. Conspiracy theorists and others point toward fiscal elitists using the divide and conquer method to keep the public at each other's throats instead of uniting against them. The polarity of right vs. left, fundamentalism vs. existentialism is hardly restricted to the United States, it is a global phenomenon. Deep impact we as a species are creating our own deep impact.

(image by Stephen Edmonds) As early as the mid 1990s, it was suggested that what we as a species are experiencing is a paradigm shift toward an Earth Centric ethical standard: a shift no less profound than the scientific revolution 400 years ago. DSCN0001. Modernity. Postmodernity.