Postmodernism

Om Shanti Om is a loved film. Most people I know believe it to be wildly entertaining, easy to watch, full of memorable dialogues and iconic songs. …

Fake rebels just stay on the safe side and “critique”. The irony and sarcasm of the last few decades just don’t carry any longer — it’s time for sincere irony, or ironic sincerity. — A weekend long-read on the nature of trust, irony, and the renewal of faith in our time. It is from an earlier draft for a chapter in my book, 12 Commandments. Prologue: On the nature of trust — and how it is created by irony

‘Epistemic fallacy’ is the name some philosophers, led by Roy Bhaskar, use to describe this faulty reasoning, which has had vast consequences since at least Immanuel Kant: 1. we can only know the world through our ideas, languages, ‘discourses’*, cultures; 2. ‘thus’, the only thing we can know in the…

NFTs were contemporary art crossed with crypto, attracting speculation and fraud— but ironically, they can help us democratically reimagine society. In the wake of AI art, don’t forget about them! — Remember NFTs? Sam Bankman-Fried, anyone? As recently as 2021, the phenomenon of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) shocked the world. In the wake of AI art, it’s easy to forget about this craze. But, more importantly, we should not forget the positive potential of this mostly bad phenomenon:

yet more in an attempt to get to the bottom of a difference between the two Knowledge is sufficiently verified information, where the person receiving the information is the judge of “sufficiently.” Of that much, I am certain. Whether is it the fault of Postmodernism or some form of mass…

My early 2017 appraisal of these two public intellectuals proved more on point than I could have imagined — Preface to 2023 re-launch Welcome to this re-launch of my detailed reading and commentary upon the first time Jordan Peterson and Camille Paglia spoke together: about society, about identity politics, about feminism, about campus activism. In retrospect, I can see that my resistance to the trend of these two rising at the time was…

Meeting Antoinette — One morning I decided to catch a Lyft to work. I got myself together and arranged for a driver to pick me up. (Whenever I decide to use Lyft I try to be courteous to the driver so I wear a mask. Whether they enforce it or not, I wear…

A note for crass individuals of either side — this is not an attempt to discredit Postmodern theory, and certainly not Baudrillard, whom I verily owe great respect and credit to philosophically. “Theory” is a word which has gripped online leftist culture for quite some time. People post “theory,” debate…

Patreon page: Mindgasms | creating Youtube videos, blogs, book reviews, and novel chapters | Patreon creating Youtube videos, blogs, book reviews, and novel chapters Select a membership level vote on for suggest future…www.patreon.com Newest Mindgasms Book Review on a short essay that my mom, Reverend Joan Heffelfinger, wrote when she was in seminary. It’s her commentary on a longer essay called “Theological Foundations for Understanding Human Sexuality.” She gets into controversial subjects for some more conservative Christians, such as loving your physical body, and sexual intercourse being part of God’s design.