- The Absurdity of Hi-Tech Servitude
What You Sacrifice to Hold a Job in the New Economy Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 In terms of "jobs," war is evidently a burgeoning growth-industry. Back in the "Homeland," the demands of "internal-security" offer new openings for countless other "surplus-persons" in need of some "employment"as law-enforcement and anti-terrorism personnel, prison guardsor prison inmates.
- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society Resource Type: Book Published: 1994
- Growing Up Absurd
Resource Type: Book Published: 1962 Goodman offers a fundamental critique of the Organized System of semimonopolies, government, advertisers, etc., and the disaffection of the growing generation.
- The Myth of Sisyphus
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 Camus asks whether life has meaning, and whether suicide is a legimitate response to the absurdity of life. He says: "Although The Myth of Sisyphus poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert."
- Panoply of the Absurd
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Conspiracy theorists are filling bestsellers with their supposed evidence about September 11.
- Postmodernism Generator
Resource Type: Website Published: 2000 A computer program written by Andrew. C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text. Each time you click on the page, it generates a brand-new postmodernist essay, completely meaningless, but superficially plausible, just like 'real' postmodernist essays.
- Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract objects -- "language", "power", "justice", "state", "culture", "government", "the polity", "the economy" and a host of others, which are viewed "theoretically" from somewhere way "outside" or "above" them. But it is just this way of looking at things -- from "on high" -- that makes it so difficult to see how people in the landscape are able to create and re-create the world in which they live, and are not simply trapped or formed by it. In fashionable postmodernist treatments of identity or subjectivity, language, as the ultimately hollow and imprisoning object, is put together with the notion that anybody who uses words must be committed to the standard definition of those words, to produce the conclusion that "language" determines the meaning of "identity" words such as man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, natural, normal -- and thus "constructs" (as it is said) human identity or subjectivity itself.
- Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
Resource Type: Article Published: 1996 Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.
- The Trouble with Theory
The Educational Costs of Postmodernism Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Yet Kitching writes: "At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused, and misbegotten philosophy. As a result even the very best students who fall under its sway produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, truth, and reality."
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