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The Age of Conspiracy?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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What Is Postmodernism?

Tim Stanley: The way that we think about facts is mirrored and intertwined with philosophy. We associate modernity with this idea of progress at all costs, he says. Postmodernism was the dominant register of experience after World War II, writes Stanley. It's a kind of post-ideology in which people imagine an end of the future - there's no alternative, argues Stanley.

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