PoMo Studies Hoax (gets taken seriously)

[Matthew Taylor]

You: David Morris
Me: Matthew Taylor

(Did I do that right?)

My point was that postmodernism is as misunderstood as it is denigrated,
and Jordan Peterson—who is (unfortunately) extremely popular and
influential right now—has popularized the term as a bogeyman among a bunch
of people who have confused and contradictory ideas about what it means.
You can't really talk about contemporary popular understandings of
"postmodernism" or "myth" or "archetypes" without at least mentioning him.
I was responding to John Bailey, agreeing with his point that it is now the
"catch-all term encompassing everything despised by the conservative
neolibs who follow Jordan Peterson and the like."

Peterson himself politicizes the term, trying to associate it with things
like Marxism. My post also argued that whatever postmodernism may or may
not be, it sure as hell *isn't* that. I wasn't talking about politics to
"ignore" postmodernism, I was saying that a great deal of the popular
discourse about postmodernism politicizes it in a way that is flat-out,
demonstrably wrong. I think any discussion about contemporary understanding
of postmodernism has to contend with Jordan Peterson—he is a force to be
reckoned with even if he's a dummy. Writing a bestselling book and getting
~$80k/month on Patreon means he has a hell of a platform, and I think a lot
of the misunderstanding of what postmodernism might mean can be attributed
directly to him.

"Like" it or not, I think it's probably important to at least have an
accurate understanding.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 9:24 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> You: I genuinely don't know what you mean by saying that my post "confirms
>> PoMo school to be drowning in politics."
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> Me: your post focused on a political asshole, and ignored anything about
> what PoMo is/was.
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> David Morris
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