Eric Kaufmann - A Simulated Counter-Culture
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- čas přidán 2. 12. 2023
- Eric Kaufmann on internet trends affecting young men's politics, the simulated counter-culture of the left, & purple-haired representatives of hegemonic values.
This clip is taken from a discussion Eric and I had about postliberalism, a nascent intellectual movement that is set to become a far more prominent feature of the political landscape in the coming years.
To view the film I made from our discussion along with many others, including exclusive access to The Reformers (2023), visit - www.michaelnayna.com/
Thanks for the work always
You're not gonna remember me Mike, but I was a student at Virginia Tech and reached out to you years ago when you covered the Evergreen State Incident.
Just wanted to say as I used to; keep up the good work, Mike!
Thanks, Rusty, I do remember. Most of my work is going up on Substack these days. I can take the pay walls down for you if you're hard up for $$. Always good to hear from OG supporters.
@@MikeNayna Mike, that means so much to me man! Money is a little tight atm. but I'll absolutely support your substack as much as I can. I'm at a new university now, maybe I can DM you on SS and we could potentially share resources & I could find out about my new schools honorarium?
Hope Pete and Jim, rest of the gang are all well. Great to know you're still fighting the good fight man!
Yeah, hit me up, mate. Thanks. @@rustyshackleford8497
Love your work.... been following since the Grievence Studies.
But why Submeta out of all the places.
I'd love to support you but that site is confusing af
I guess I should just get over there and try to figure it out.
Please do. It's a great platform for many reasons. Check it out for a while and hopefully you'll see what I mean. I can do things there that aren't possible here.
The hyper reality version of rebellion.
I appreciate this work, but I think, for balance, you should get perspectives from postmodernists who do not fit the trope of the "angry, woke social justice warrior." For example, Foucault -- one of the fathers of postmodern theory -- has always been AGAINST identity politics, arguing that it constrains people to fit certain "criteria" or "codes" rather than to be their own, creative, free self. So is the link between identity politics and postmodernism an unfair one? If so, what can explain the rise of these identity-driven movements? And are activists really interested in re-making society for all or are they making demands to stroke their narcisstic egos -- in which case, this might be better attributed to American-style individualism and the self-interested pursuit to be "your authentic self" rather than the critique postmodernists like to apply to expose and question the hidden values that support widely-accepted norms and institutional practices, to the detriment of certain segments of society? .
I like a lot of the postmodern's work. I've called the Woke connection "applied postmodernism" elsewhere to create distance between the two.
@@MikeNayna I accept your distinction -- with one caveat. So-called "applied post-modernists", a term coined by Pluckrose and Lindsay, has nothing to do with postmodernism; it is a return to structuralism, much like the radical feminism of Dworkin and MacKinnon (who draw on gender as a structural category, not a discursive contruction). Diangelo -- ironically, a white woman profitting off a black man's death, while wringing her hands pleading with other whites to do better when she, herself, cannot -- is no postmodernist. She creates master categories. She essentialises both black and white experience. She constructs categories rather than deconstructs for contradictions. Whereas postmodernists uses emirical methods such as deconstructing texts or analysing discourses in social interactions, DiAngelo cites others' work, often in slippery ways, to popularise her message. In fact, her book -- and her public speeches and private training sessions in its aftermatch -- have allowed her to create a "brand" for herself. Postmodernists are skeptical of capitalism and its oppressive cultural logic (so, too, Marxists, but they are concerned with its material forces); diAngelo has embraced it, turning herself into a pop star. On my reading, diAngelo is a MODERNIST.
I coined it. Postmodernism is a lot of things, and some of it ended up in the APs work. @@hangonaminute. We can spend a lot of time trying to pry Woke loose from postmodernism but at some point, you start making distinctions without differences. I like a lot of pomo either way.
@@MikeNayna I think it is a distinction with a difference. (1) Postmodernism is about EPISTEMOLOGICAL scepticism towards totalising logic. (2) Its concern is that Truth is difficult to access, not that it does not exist. (3) It is evidence-based by way of "infra-empiricism" -- looking at the stabilising logic that operates on a text, history or a social interaction. The nonsense coming from activists such as diAngelo is about (1) a totalising ONTOLOGICAL logic of self-evident oppression; (2) an "alternative facts" case of Truth rather than an attempt to reach it by clearing away the human interests that interfere with clear understanding; and (3) a presumption of reality without any supporting case studies, anthropological observations, historical analysis or field work. Put shortly, postmodernism is a challenge to how we know what we know; diAngelo and her ilk are putting guns to our heads to uncritically accept their version of reality. QUT is proof of oppression -- but it is coming from a white, privileged, wealthy woman of science.
Let's take a recent e xample of madness. The VC at QUT, Margaret Shiel, has just announced that merit will not longer be required for appointments at her university. She wants "different faces". Let's unpack this. (1) Is she is saying every academic at QUT is unworthy of their position but appointed because of their group characteristic? (2) Is she saying that any future appointment will be a "diversity hire" rather than someone with a creative mind and intellectual talent? (3) As a white, multi-millionare woman, why doesn't she step down as someone who ticks most of the 'privileged" boxes? (4) And if QUT were so serious about embracing more women, POCs and sexuality minorities, why did QUT destroy its humanities and social sciences faculties which typically attracts excellent candidates from these under-represented groups? The truth is Shiel is not a social justice warrior. She is a totalitarian dictator who, as a chemist, cannot cope with the subtleties and sophisticatio of philosophy -- let's face it, there is no philosophy program at QUT with whom she can cosult!! The net effect of this idiocy? She has dehumanised current colleagues, dehumanised incoming colleagues, and dehumanised students by insisting they want "different faces" rather than a meaningful, high-waulity education. (You probabaly have heard of this joke. QUT says its the "university for the real world". "That's all well and good,' replies University of Queensland, "but we are a real university,"
will the madness end? can logic win?
No, logic doesn't mean anything to these women.
@@phatpat63 welp.
What madness?
@@solarisocean of the people outraging about the things that they made up or made more of then they are to outrage about them.
@DeconvertedMan so the things they are outraged about it's just made up?