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Was U.S. slavery different from other forms of slavery? Some commentators try to minimize the slavery’s impact on the United States. I respond to Candace Owens & Ben Shapiro videos on U.S. slavery.
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. Buy here!
Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. Oxford University Press, 1992. Buy here!
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Postmodern philosophy is often misunderstood, partially because it is very nuanced, partially because they appear deliberately obscure, but often because people do not fully understand the presuppositions that postmodernists rely on, nor do they understand the critique of modernity.
In this video, I react to a video by Youtuber Ryan Chapman called “What is Postmodernism?” Chapman attempts to explain postmodernism and show its secret links to so-called Leftist identity politics.
I have also provided a plethora of citations, including the one’s Chapman uses in his video, but doesn’t provide.
Citations:
Baudrillard, Jean. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. 1991.
hooks, bell. “Postmodern Blackness”. 1994.
Pappas, Stephanie. “APA issues first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys”. 2019.
Derrida, Jacques. Limited Inc. Northwestern Univ. Press, 2008. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic. Buy here!
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 2006. Buy here!
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Buy here!
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Vintage Books, 2011. Buy here!
Friedrich, Hegel Georg Wilhelm. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Oxford University Press, 1994. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage Books, 2006. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
Deere, Don T. “TRUTH.” The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 517–527. Buy here!
Lyotard Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by Geoff Bennington, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. Buy here!
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Psychology professor Dr. Jordan B. Peterson–who will only be referred to as DADDY—often pronounces his deep disdain for po-mo no-mos, i.e., post-modern neo-marxists. Despite there being no such thing as a po-mo no-mo (because the philosophies of post-modernism & neo-marxism are opposed to one another), one po-mo no-mo Daddy often brings up is another type of Daddy, French philosopher Michel Foucault. I react & respond to a video by Daddy where he is heavily criticizing Foucault to answer the question: Who’s Your Daddy?
Sources:
Bite-sized Philosophy video:
Jordan Peterson – Mental Illness, a Social Construct – Foucault
Daddy’s Youtube Video:
2016 Lecture 07 Maps of Meaning: Part 1: Osirus, Set, Isis, & Horus
Other videos about Daddy:
Contrapoints:
Jordan Peterson
Cuck Philosophy:
Jordan Peterson doesn’t understand post-modernism
The Living Philosophy:
Jordan Peterson’s Shadow
Eternalised:
Jordan Peterson vs. Friedrich Nietzsche | Is God Dead?
Citations:
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. History of Madness, translated by Jean Khalfa, Routledge, London, 2009. Published in French in 1961. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage Books, 2006. Published in French in 1964. Buy Here!
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 1975. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: an Introduction. 1976. Buy here!
Maps of Meaning. 2002. Buy here!
12 Rules for Life. Buy Here!
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Sometimes, it feels good to hate!
Journalist Matt Taibbi’s 2019 book Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes us Despise One Another.
Taibbi brilliantly analyzes how trends in news media have changed in the last forty years.
Hate Inc. is a spiritual successor to the book Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman, but Hate Inc.’s alt-title would be Manufacturing Discontent because that is the business model for media in the age of neoliberalism. Do yourself a favor, and buy Hate Inc.
Citations:
Taibbi, Matt. Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another: With a New Post-Election Preface.
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