Mor on postmodernism

I stumbld upon this: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/823

It seems lejit i.e., not a hoex.

Heer is a good analysis of the wurk in kwestshon: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/bad-faith-viii/

Reeding this stuf just maeks me eeven mor want to to reed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense however i kant fiend it on the net enywear. Yet!

Chomsky seems to hav been spot on wen he roet or saed (perhaps, kudnt fiend a gud sors on this kwoet)

“There are lots of things I don’t understand — say, the latest debates over whether neutrinos have mass or the way that Fermat’s last theorem was (apparently) proven recently. But from 50 years in this game, I have learned two things: (1) I can ask friends who work in these areas to explain it to me at a level that I can understand, and they can do so, without particular difficulty; (2) if I’m interested, I can proceed to learn more so that I will come to understand it. Now Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, Kristeva, etc. — even Foucault, whom I knew and liked, and who was somewhat different from the rest — write things that I also don’t understand, but (1) and (2) don’t hold: no one who says they do understand can explain it to me and I haven’t a clue as to how to proceed to overcome my failures. That leaves one of two possibilities: (a) some new advance in intellectual life has been made, perhaps some sudden genetic mutation, which has created a form of “theory” that is beyond quantum theory, topology, etc., in depth and profundity; or (b) … I won’t spell it out.”

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