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Episode #124 ... Simulacra and Simulation

Philosophize This!

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The New Scientific Categories Aren't Written Into the Universe

Sane and insanity are two terms that we use in a modern cultural discourse to describe the mental health of people. But fuco would say something we all have to realize is that there's nothing these new scientific categories that somehow written into the universe. And just how these other ways of categorizing people in the past have come and gone, our methods will as well. The stability of any grand narrative that we have inherited from the past has been called into question now.

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