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Amy Allen: The End of Progress

This Is Not A Pipe

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Is Post-Modernism Responsible for White Supremacy?

Post-modernism, post-structuralism of questioning and potentially rejecting this idea of an absolute truth or norm. Those kinds of practices are now being used to say, well, I reject the so-called consensus on global warming because I have an alternative fact to tell you. This thing that used to be celebrated as emancipatory is now being used for a certain form of hegemony. It just means that when we get to the level of debating, which is something we do in philosophy, I don't really think it happens in actual politics very often if at all.

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