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s05e112 | Why Woke Won't Work, with James Lindsay & Wokal Distance

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The Role of Postmodernism in Social Criticism

Freirey invokes and constructs elements of social criticism that shares an affinity with emancipatory strands of postmodern discourse. In his refusal of a transcendent ethics, epistemological foundationalism and political teleology, he further developed a provisional ethical and political discourse subject to the play of history, culture, and power. But there's no connection between postmodernism and Marxism. They're different things and have nothing to do with each other.

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