The Evolution Of Postmodern Thought | Helen Pluckrose
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The Evolution of Postmodernism
Postcolonialism emerged a little before that as an offshoot of postmodernism. It was headed by the Foucauldian Edward Syed who argued that the West had constructed the East as its inferior in order to construct itself in noble terms. Gayachi Spivak and Homie Berber followed in his footsteps although they were more Déradine. In 1989 over in critical legal studies and critical race theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw began developing her concept of intersectionality. She described this as contemporary politics linked to postmodern theory. The existence of oppressive cultural constructs around gender and race were decided to be what was objectively real. Queer theory avoided the fate of deconstructing
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