Recent Posts

The Schizo-Stroller

A blog about the inner workings of the mind and experiences of someone suffering from schizophrenia, plus random musings on just about anything

Postmodernism, Court Jesters and Monkey

Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 06:52 in absolute spirit, capitalism, chineses monkey god, Enlightenment, hegel, jester, kant, monkey, postmodernism, sovereign, theory, zizek

I have been wondering recently whether postmodernism (in the sense described by Zizek here Resistance is Surrender), and it’s practical capitulation to capitalism is like a Jester in the court o...
A Good Argument?

Posted on Saturday June 14th, 2008 at 09:01 in argument, french theory, nonsense, postmodernism, poststructuralism, stanley fish, stupid, theory, wrong

I keep coming across the argument, often directed against the post-isms (post-structuralism, postmodernism, post colonialism etc) but ultimately to be found universally, although of course not a unive...