Morris Dickstein teaches English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, "A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World," is just out from Princeton ...

“I fear for the future of the humanities,” said scholar Helen Pluckrose. As should any reasonable individual. What is postmodern theory? And how did it result in this ideological corruption of the ...

As deviant behavior is defined down, law begins to reflect the redefinition and we find ourselves on the road to normalization. Beginning in the 1970s with the much-maligned North American Man Boy ...

David Roberts has an interesting post on Grist, asking whether climate change denialism has roots in postmodern theory. In general, he seems to come down on the side of "not really", but that's just ...

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In the ideological disciplines—the humanities and social sciences—it is rare to come across a theoretical work that doesn’t seem to fetishize verbiage and jargonizing for their own sake. From the ...

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SUNY Stony Brook recently concluded that two black holes maintained their total surface area after merging. While this research was a ...

Narrative therapy, the strengths perspective, and solution-focused therapy are 3 prominent examples of social work practices heavily informed by social constructionism. Yet getting students from ...

Terry Farrell, who has died aged 87, was one of the most conspicuous figures in British postmodernism – a designer unafraid ...

Corey, known as Kardashian Kolloquium on Instagram and TikTok, applies media theory and postmodern philosophy to the Kardashian family, their Hulu show and their impact on society: "There is a ...

“Welcome to the desert of the real,” Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) ostentatiously tells Neo (Keanu Reeves) in an important scene not quite halfway through “The Matrix,” the groundbreaking 1999 science ...