okay i KNOW some of you nerds will have recs here: where should i, as someone who hasn't read much critical theory beyond entry-level french poststructuralism, start with the frankfurt school?
November 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
okay i KNOW some of you nerds will have recs here: where should i, as someone who hasn't read much critical theory beyond entry-level french poststructuralism, start with the frankfurt school?
Study Philosophy, Tuition Free: A complete course of study, from the Presocratics to Poststructuralism, using all free resources available on the internet. Includes sample paths, and a build-your-own-path tool.
www.philosophypublics.com/blog/study-p...
www.philosophypublics.com/blog/study-p...
November 1, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Study Philosophy, Tuition Free: A complete course of study, from the Presocratics to Poststructuralism, using all free resources available on the internet. Includes sample paths, and a build-your-own-path tool.
www.philosophypublics.com/blog/study-p...
www.philosophypublics.com/blog/study-p...
I’m supposed to be preparing to do the thing i don’t want to do that will enable me to do more things i don’t really wanna do, so it is a good time to tell you all that i am considering taking a cohort through the equivalent of a B.A. in Philosophy starting in the new year.…
Continued on Substack
Continued on Substack
Study Philosophy, Tuition Free
A complete course of study, from the Presocratics to Poststructuralism, using all free resources available on the internet.
philosophypublics.substack.com
November 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I’m supposed to be preparing to do the thing i don’t want to do that will enable me to do more things i don’t really wanna do, so it is a good time to tell you all that i am considering taking a cohort through the equivalent of a B.A. in Philosophy starting in the new year.…
Continued on Substack
Continued on Substack
…even if output is text not song. I do think it’s important to understand *what* LLMs are doing to generate their outputs, rather than only focusing on whether they are ‘conscious’ and whether you can have poetry without conscious creativity. But then I read lots of poststructuralism in my youth…
October 31, 2026 at 7:40 AM
…even if output is text not song. I do think it’s important to understand *what* LLMs are doing to generate their outputs, rather than only focusing on whether they are ‘conscious’ and whether you can have poetry without conscious creativity. But then I read lots of poststructuralism in my youth…
October 26, 2026 at 10:52 PM
this is probably a bit arbitrary because who knows, but something that stuck with me when I was really into the figures of crit theory and poststructuralism and later french marxism and such was that many of them seemed to be fucking insufferable people
October 28, 2026 at 3:17 AM
this is probably a bit arbitrary because who knows, but something that stuck with me when I was really into the figures of crit theory and poststructuralism and later french marxism and such was that many of them seemed to be fucking insufferable people
Are you a member over at Medium? If so, you can read some of my pieces over there: https://philosophypublics.medium.com/
Philosophy Publics – Medium
Read writing from Philosophy Publics on Medium. Mona Mona (Ph.D., Philosophy) writes in the traditions of Phenomenology, Existentialism, Feminism, and Poststructuralism. https://www.philosophypublics.com/
philosophypublics.medium.com
October 28, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Are you a member over at Medium? If so, you can read some of my pieces over there: https://philosophypublics.medium.com/
the classic structuralism vs poststructuralism example is "king". the idea is that, underlying everything, there's some sort of "king-ness", there's the word "king," and then there's the connection between the two. signifier/signified/sign. and we understand "king" not only in relation to king-ness,
October 25, 2026 at 8:05 PM
the classic structuralism vs poststructuralism example is "king". the idea is that, underlying everything, there's some sort of "king-ness", there's the word "king," and then there's the connection between the two. signifier/signified/sign. and we understand "king" not only in relation to king-ness,
And don't get me started on the other straw-man arguments regarding "Postmodernism" or "nihilism" or "poststructuralism" or "relativism." I do think that (as Eric Hayot, @ehayot.bsky.social) has pointed out, we have too often ceded the insistence that we produce truth to other parts of the
October 23, 2026 at 2:01 PM
And don't get me started on the other straw-man arguments regarding "Postmodernism" or "nihilism" or "poststructuralism" or "relativism." I do think that (as Eric Hayot, @ehayot.bsky.social) has pointed out, we have too often ceded the insistence that we produce truth to other parts of the
"Flying Fish and Poison" is a cross-biography of Professor Ishida and Stiegler. What Professor Ishida wrote is that poststructuralism and the problems of contemporary tech are connected, and that Stiegler was the one who thought the missing link between them.
October 24, 2026 at 5:25 AM
"Flying Fish and Poison" is a cross-biography of Professor Ishida and Stiegler. What Professor Ishida wrote is that poststructuralism and the problems of contemporary tech are connected, and that Stiegler was the one who thought the missing link between them.
previously some, yes, but there are lots of counter-arguments to be found in postcolonial studies, poststructuralism and contemporary psychology.
October 16, 2026 at 7:04 AM
previously some, yes, but there are lots of counter-arguments to be found in postcolonial studies, poststructuralism and contemporary psychology.
Yeah this was another thing for me, I got very into poststructuralism and such on the fear that basically my worldview about things like trans rights wouldn’t be born out by the data, and then it basically was and I felt like an idiot
October 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Yeah this was another thing for me, I got very into poststructuralism and such on the fear that basically my worldview about things like trans rights wouldn’t be born out by the data, and then it basically was and I felt like an idiot
Ya know?
I'm starting to think these evangelical Christian's and "prepers" may onto to something?
Why, you ask?
"Evil Dead the Musical!"
Poststructuralism at its most benign, and lazy iteration
Evil dead the musical...
I'm starting to think these evangelical Christian's and "prepers" may onto to something?
Why, you ask?
"Evil Dead the Musical!"
Poststructuralism at its most benign, and lazy iteration
Evil dead the musical...
Cableguy: This Concludes Our Broadcast Day
ALT: Cableguy: This Concludes Our Broadcast Day
static.klipy.com
October 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Ya know?
I'm starting to think these evangelical Christian's and "prepers" may onto to something?
Why, you ask?
"Evil Dead the Musical!"
Poststructuralism at its most benign, and lazy iteration
Evil dead the musical...
I'm starting to think these evangelical Christian's and "prepers" may onto to something?
Why, you ask?
"Evil Dead the Musical!"
Poststructuralism at its most benign, and lazy iteration
Evil dead the musical...
First poststructuralism, and then media and digital studies has been making the point for *decades* about the textualization (and literal codification) of the material world. My shelves groan.
October 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
First poststructuralism, and then media and digital studies has been making the point for *decades* about the textualization (and literal codification) of the material world. My shelves groan.
I'm not going to repost that clip of Vance being a bigot and "defining" socialism, but do you remember when conservatives were hella pissed about poststructuralism in the 90s? When they were just so angry that meaning was relative and people could define shit "however they want"?
Sigh.
Sigh.
October 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I'm not going to repost that clip of Vance being a bigot and "defining" socialism, but do you remember when conservatives were hella pissed about poststructuralism in the 90s? When they were just so angry that meaning was relative and people could define shit "however they want"?
Sigh.
Sigh.
“In retrospect, I can see how conceptually adrift I was, how poorly seventh grade had prepared me for poststructuralism.” From Issue 54: @marxforcats on her Foucauldian family
Michel and Mom | Leigh Claire La Berge
Mom’s still here. I can call her and talk to her, though not about French medical history. Not about anything, really — we mostly exchange affective states and appreciate the fact of each other’s being. Of the growing collection of losses I feel so acutely in the wake of Mom’s dementia, many are the obvious and expected. Her whole self. Her role as parent. Her daily phone calls to me. Other losses I am genuinely surprised by.
f.mtr.cool
October 6, 2026 at 11:06 PM
“In retrospect, I can see how conceptually adrift I was, how poorly seventh grade had prepared me for poststructuralism.” From Issue 54: @marxforcats on her Foucauldian family
I hate when YouTubers treat postmodernism/poststructuralism/critical theory as a kind of mystic art where you don’t have to justify your claims or explain anything.
October 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I hate when YouTubers treat postmodernism/poststructuralism/critical theory as a kind of mystic art where you don’t have to justify your claims or explain anything.
3/ Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.
October 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
3/ Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.
people who don't like poststructuralism seem to regard him as harmfully insane, but i don't understand that, it seems rather that he read a bunch of psychoanalysis and failed to understand that it's intended as a tool that is supposed to make people feel better, it's not a religious theory
October 3, 2026 at 6:33 AM
people who don't like poststructuralism seem to regard him as harmfully insane, but i don't understand that, it seems rather that he read a bunch of psychoanalysis and failed to understand that it's intended as a tool that is supposed to make people feel better, it's not a religious theory
Yes, it's very frustrating when, straight up, poststructuralism is VERY useful for understanding LLMs
October 2, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Yes, it's very frustrating when, straight up, poststructuralism is VERY useful for understanding LLMs
On page 512 Dirlik describes "rephrasing of Marxism in the language of poststructuralism... ends up not with its dispersion into local vernaculars but with a return to a first world language", postcolonial critics claim they are rejecting the universal pretensions of Marxism. But then just translate
September 30, 2026 at 11:04 PM
On page 512 Dirlik describes "rephrasing of Marxism in the language of poststructuralism... ends up not with its dispersion into local vernaculars but with a return to a first world language", postcolonial critics claim they are rejecting the universal pretensions of Marxism. But then just translate
german.duke.edu/news/structu...
this looks incredible
this looks incredible
Structure, Sign, and Play in the Age of AI
In October of 1966---60 years ago---Johns Hopkins held a conference that is now widely seen as the hinge point when structuralism gave way to poststructuralism. Jacques Derrida delivered his paper "St...
german.duke.edu
September 29, 2026 at 7:52 PM
german.duke.edu/news/structu...
this looks incredible
this looks incredible
We again return to the conflict of universiality versus local understanding in Dirlik, with their example of Chinese Marxism (512). Their discussion of the limits of poststructuralism as a means of communication also bring back our same question from early on in class. Can poststructural thought-
September 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
We again return to the conflict of universiality versus local understanding in Dirlik, with their example of Chinese Marxism (512). Their discussion of the limits of poststructuralism as a means of communication also bring back our same question from early on in class. Can poststructural thought-
unlearning poststructuralism so that i can become the best utilitarian fiend i can be
September 27, 2026 at 11:31 PM
unlearning poststructuralism so that i can become the best utilitarian fiend i can be
Oh he definitely didn’t defend him. He despised de Man & saw his downfall (as a Nazi) as an opportunity to dismiss all of poststructuralism & literary theory, and then all of the humanities. What I wonder is if theres some repetition compulsion here, where Pinker’s race science will wreck HIS field
September 19, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Oh he definitely didn’t defend him. He despised de Man & saw his downfall (as a Nazi) as an opportunity to dismiss all of poststructuralism & literary theory, and then all of the humanities. What I wonder is if theres some repetition compulsion here, where Pinker’s race science will wreck HIS field