Here is an eleven-minute audio excerpt with subtitles in Spanish — on how Friedrich Nietzsche’s analysis of ressentiment psychology now applies to segments of the postmodern left. The 1998 lecture at a TAS conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder, fed into my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. And here is […]
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The group (Greg Wilson, Rachel Fulton Brown, Micah Sample, Lewis Sloter, and Barry Jacobs) invited me to discuss themes out of my Explaining Postmodernism. The nearly two-hour conversation is at YouTube and embedded below. Our topics of discussion ranged over: Kant * whether “the Enlightenment,” “Renaissance,” “Postmodernism,” and other broad labels are legitimate * the
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Part of my extended conversation with Glenn Beck appeared on his television show on Tuesday, December 4. The nine-minute excerpt can be viewed at this link. The full conversation will be published soon, I understand.
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I’ll be speaking with the Three Kraters at their online video symposium. The symposium is “a gathering of academics, activists, authors, lawyers, professionals that drink, smoke, and discuss hard hitting topics.” Here also is their YouTube channel. From their flattering blurb about me: “Join us LIVE on Friday at 8:30 PM November 30th when we
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I was interviewed (remotely and in English, but with Spanish subtitles) for the Club de la Libertad‘s regional conference on economics. The 16-minute interview covers the origins of states, whether the state is a necessary evil or a necessary good, limiting the power of the state, how special-interest exception-making leads to our contemporary expansive state,
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My six-event tour ended with the huge, sold-out MBL conference in São Paulo. Amazing energy and enthusiasm among the young Brazilians at this pregnant transition time in their history. I spoke for an hour on postmodernism and the Left, following Janaína Paschoal, leader of the impeachment proceedings against the corrupt Dilma Rousseff, and followed by
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Audio links: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: The drama of The Will to Power // My earlier position // What was Nietzsche’s sister’s actual involvement? // The book’s connection to the Nazis // The themes from The Will to Power Transcription: Forthcoming Sources: Robert Matthews, “‘Madness’ of Nietzsche was cancer not syphilis,” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3313279/Madness-of-Nietzsche-was-cancer-not-syphilis.html. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Walter Kaufmann and R.
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Another datum on how postmodernism’s political reflexes are authoritarian — despite its high-theory-ambiguity stance — and that the theory provides rhetorical cover for politicization. Ken Wilber (via Joshua Zader): ‘”The end of any serious deconstructionist movement came with the Paul de Man debacle. On the morning of December 1, 1987, the New York Times reported
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