This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Chris Daley noticed that ‘postmodern’ has been popping up a lot lately ...

“I fear for the future of the humanities,” said scholar Helen Pluckrose. As should any reasonable individual. What is postmodern theory? And how did it result in this ideological corruption of the ...

The often-maligned movement is today’s academic Rorschach blot. Postmodernism seems to mean anything, everything, and nothing. It’s today’s academic Rorschach blot on which nervous modernists and ...

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The topography in which SF criticism operates has been long established. There is, on the one hand, the "mainstream," that "outside" of SF where the literary/institutional determinations of the ...

In 2018, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, the editor of Areo magazine and a Ph.D. mathematician, respectively, achieved internet stardom when they revealed that (along with co-conspirator Peter ...

Editorial Introduction: Postmodernism's SF/SF's Postmodernism. Are we late? Are we early? Can it be we're on time? Linking postmodernism and SF is hardly a new thing; many of SF's most sophisticated ...

This blog is co-authored by Daniel Görtz. He is a sociologist, social theorist, and writer. He holds a Ph.D. in police ethnography from Lund University and has been active in publishing books and ...

This blog is co-authored by Daniel Görtz. He is a sociologist, social theorist, and writer. He holds a Ph.D. in police ethnography from Lund University and has been active in publishing books and ...