PoMo Studies Hoax (gets taken seriously)

[John Bailey]

"Postmodernism" has become the new catch-all term encompassing
everything despised by the conservative neolibs who follow Jordan
Peterson and the like. In the list above that includes psychoanalysis
and sociology (both of which predate postmodernism by decades) and
critical race theory which is often in direct opposition to postmodern
theory.
But pomo is a handy strawman if you look around and feel your tenure
as big man on campus is threatened by all these newfangled ways of
questioning your right to be boss. Pomo theory per se is hardly even
taught much these days outside of art and architecture courses, in
which instances it's regarded as a historical movement of the 20th
century. I think a lot of proper postmodern theory is quite dangerous
and reactionary itself but I find it bizarre that that's the whipping
boy the new right have come up with.
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 7:51 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/cultural-studies-hoax-mostly-being-brushed-off-as-tiresome-bs/
>
> "Three hoaxsters with no previous expertise brushed up on their pomo and
> then wrote a series of deliberately dumb papers that they submitted to
> serious, peer-reviewed journals in the areas of gender studies,
> masculinities studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, psychoanalysis,
> critical race theory, critical whiteness theory, fat studies, sociology,
> and educational philosophy. Seven of their papers were accepted, and the
> number probably would have been higher if they hadn’t been uncovered and
> forced to end their experiment early."
>
> A Twitter response:  "If an amateur with no background can spend three
> months brushing up on your field, and then immediately start cranking out
> papers that get accepted at serious, peer-reviewed journals, there is
> something badly wrong with your field."
>
> David Morris
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