Postmodern philosophy Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical direction which is critical of the foundational assumptions and universalizing tendency of Western philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of power relationships, personalization and discourse in the "construction" of truth and world views. Postmodern philosophy is often particularly skeptical about simple binary oppositions characteristic of structuralism, emphasizing the problem of the philosopher cleanly distinguishing knowledge from ignorance, social progress from reversion, dominance from submission, and presence from absence.[1][2] Postmodern philosophy has strong relations with the substantial literature of critical theory.[3] Definitional issues[edit] Philosopher John Deely has argued for the contentious claim that the label "postmodern" for thinkers such as Derrida et al. is premature. History[edit] Precursors[edit] Early postmodern philosophers[edit] Derrida, the father of deconstruction, practiced philosophy as a form of textual criticism.
Can Children Know, At Age 2, They Were Born The 'Wrong Sex'? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture iStockphoto Kathryn's Dad thought she was going through a tomboy phase. Kathryn's Mom suspected it might be something more. From the age of two onwards, Kathryn herself was utterly certain: "I am a boy," the child insisted. Kathryn's story was told on the front page of The Washington Post last Sunday, and I found it a gripping tale. It explores Kathryn's sense, expressed consistently through her toddler years, that she is a boy, and her parents' "upheaval" in trying to do the right thing by their child. Tyler (the pseudonym chosen by the Post for Kathryn's new name) now dresses as a boy and attends preschool as a boy. In a course I teach at William and Mary, Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender, my students and I grapple with questions of this nature. Fausto-Sterling takes a dynamic systems approach to gender identity, one where a number of influences work together as a system to affect a child's experience of gender. Furthermore, gender identity may not be fixed throughout life.
List of cognitive biases Systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral economics.[1] Although the reality of most of these biases is confirmed by reproducible research,[2][3] there are often controversies about how to classify these biases or how to explain them.[4] Several theoretical causes are known for some cognitive biases, which provides a classification of biases by their common generative mechanism (such as noisy information-processing[5]). Gerd Gigerenzer has criticized the framing of cognitive biases as errors in judgment, and favors interpreting them as arising from rational deviations from logical thought.[6] Explanations include information-processing rules (i.e., mental shortcuts), called heuristics, that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments. Belief, decision-making and behavioral[edit] Anchoring bias[edit]
Cathedral of Shit Category:P2P State Approaches This section will be further developed: Hilary Wainwright: Co-Creative Labor, Productive Democracy and the Partner State; a very important text to reset government policies for the p2p age. The 3 parts cover: 1 A value revolution in labor; 2 Re-constituting industrial strategies based on co-creative labor; 3 The Co-Creative Economy needs a Partner State Michel Bauwens: Tommaso Fattori: Vasilis Kostakis: At the Turning Point of the Current Techno-Economic Paradigm: Commons-Based Peer Production, Desktop Manufacturing and the Role of Civil Society in the Perezian Framework. tripleC 11(1): 173-190, 2013. URL = Parody of the Commmons. tripleC 11(2): 412-424, 2013. URL = Political Economy of Information Production in the Social Web: Towards a “Partner State Approach”. TUT Press, 2011. Help us develop the following concepts: Other key concepts: - Pat Conaty Key Articles Key Books
Postmodernism: What is Truth? Postmodernism – A Description Postmodernism is difficult to define, because to define it would violate the postmodernist's premise that no definite terms, boundaries, or absolute truths exist. In this article, the term “postmodernism” will remain vague, since those who claim to be postmodernists have varying beliefs and opinions on issues. Are nationalism, politics, religion, and war the result of a primitive human mentality? Is truth an illusion? How can Christianity claim primacy or dictate morals? According to the Postmodern Worldview, the Western world society is an outdated lifestyle disguised under impersonal and faceless bureaucracies. Their concerns, for example, often include building and using weapons of mass destruction, encouraging an unlimited amount of consumerism thus fostering a wasteful throwaway society at the sacrifice of the earth’s resources and environment, while at the same time not serving the fair and equitable socioeconomic needs of the populace. Study Truth!
How the Conservative Worldview Quashes Critical Thinking -- and What That Means For Our Kids' Future | Education Photo Credit: ShutterStock.com May 18, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The Conservative War On Education continues apace, with charters blooming everywhere, high-stakes testing cementing its grip on classrooms, and legislators and pundits wondering what we need those stupid liberal arts colleges for anyway. Amid the din, there's a worrisome trend: liberals keep affirming right-wing talking points, usually without realizing that they're even right wing. The hell it is. Our answers to that question could not be more diametrically opposed. A Question of Human Nature Our beliefs about the purpose of education are rooted in even deeper beliefs about the basic nature of humanity. All conservative politics springs from one central premise: they believe that human beings are essentially fallen and deeply flawed.
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ch: Temporarily unavailable This Is CivilizationMatthew Collings Episode Two This episode looks at how art came to express our human emotions and the full range of what it is to be human. Mathew Collings examines the work of two great 18th century artists - David and Goya - in a journey that takes him from the glories of Renaissance Italy to the turbulent, violent Paris of the French Revolution. David's art is all about the nobility of man, our higher aspirations. Collings also travels further back in time, to discover the first glimmerings of this art of human feelings in the Italian Renaissance.
Ironia sovrana. Le élite vecchie e nuove. Chiose a Baricco - Luca De Biase Alle ricorrenti crisi delle élite sono dedicate intere biblioteche. In generale, i problemi connessi sono legati alla forma dei moti popolari che le mettono in difficoltà, alle loro cause di fondo e immediate, alle loro conseguenze. Ma c’è una costante: la crisi delle élite significa anche la crisi del discernimento tradizionale intorno a ciò che è giusto, vero e bello. Ed è una forma del rinnovamento storico, necessario, salutare. Quello che avviene nel mondo occidentale attuale è una crisi dell’élite? Crisi di lunga durata o di breve periodo? La rivoluzione francese è un esempio di crisi dell’élite che ha una dinamica di lunga durata. La rivoluzione francese è stata probabilmente la risposta a un problema di questo tipo. Ebbene: le crisi politiche attuali, gilet gialli compresi, sono rivolte o rivoluzioni? Le primavere arabe del 2011 sono state rivolte senza una vera e propria élite di ricambio, in Egitto e altrove. Ma c’è anche un progetto? Scenari?
Postmodern art Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern. There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include bricolage, the use of words prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as well as the break-up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture.[1][2] Use of the term[edit] The predominant term for art produced since the 1950s is "contemporary art". As well as describing certain tendencies of contemporary art, postmodern has also been used to denote a phase of modern art. As with all uses of the term postmodern there are critics of its application. Dada[edit]
THE LAST DAYS OF THE POLYMATH People who know a lot about a lot have long been an exclusive club, but now they are an endangered species. Edward Carr tracks some down ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Autumn 2009 CARL DJERASSI can remember the moment when he became a writer. It was 1993, he was a professor of chemistry at Stanford University in California and he had already written books about science and about his life as one of the inventors of the Pill. Now he wanted to write a literary novel about writers’ insecurities, with a central character loosely modelled on Norman Mailer, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal. His wife, Diane Middlebrook, thought it was a ridiculous idea. Even at 85, slight and snowy-haired, Djerassi is a determined man. Eventually Djerassi got the bound galleys of his book. Diane Middlebrook died of cancer in 2007 and, as Djerassi speaks, her presence grows stronger. Carl Djerassi is a polymath. The word “polymath” teeters somewhere between Leonardo da Vinci and Stephen Fry.
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