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Jason Judd's avatar

‘…the fool is a postmodern cultural criticist who, by means of his ludic procedures destined to "subvert" the existing order, actually serves as its supplement.’

This is particularly poignant and insightful and its manifestations are playing out in real time as ideologies coalesce around the contemporaneous issues of our epoch,mainly the two major ongoing conflicts heavily immersed in geopolitics, Ukraine and Isr@3l.

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Johan Söderström's avatar

The crimes of Empire comes as no surprise. And the silence of complicity is surely deafening. I agree.

But this whining about cancel culture and wokism… it’s unbecoming. Isn’t that to hold the balls of the ethno-nationalist/colonial rapists?

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Conor Bryce Knapp's avatar

You are even partly agreeing with the sentiment here though. If Wokism/Cancel Culture is bankrupt as a practice AND as an object of critique, then it should be dismissed as the dominant narrative for ‘Leftist’ political struggle. Is it really ‘whining’ and ‘unbecoming’ to affirm the impotency of contemporary ideologies which are lauded in the media as ‘progressive’? That just seems like philosophy to me…

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Zaid Ridha's avatar

"the threat of AI" but isn't AI the solution to capitalism? AI communism?

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