James and the Giant Podcast

We did it! We wrap things up on the topic of postmodernism this week and Tim Keefe finally gets to talk about Bauman. Modernity is liquid! 

Show Notes:

Zygmunt Bauman - Modernity and The Holocaust 2013

Liquid Modernity 2000

ReasonTV Video Covering Libertarianism and Postmodernity, as discussed

https://youtu.be/VLzJFh-7daQ

I had the great privilege of chatting with professor and philosopher Dr Greg Sadler about some of the struggles of philosophy, what stoicism is and what keeps it around and alive today. 

Show Notes

https://www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

https://reasonio.wordpress.com/

https://modernstoicism.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1853809494834681/ Stoics for Justice

Let's take a look at two important works of science fiction and think about our present state, the future, and beyond. The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin and The Culture series by Iain M Banks offer an opportunity to imagine a world more free.

Is it better to be free than it is to be comfortable? What if you had both?

He's back! And back with more. This episode Tim Keefe breaks through Lyotard, Debord, Baudrillard, and Borgmann in an examination of postmodernity and its thinkers. 

Bibliography

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.

___. The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982-1985.

Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle.

Stracey, Frances. Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International.

Baudrillard, Jean. Simulation and Simulacrum.

___. Selected Writings.

___. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.

___. The Perfect Crime.

___. America.

___. Cool Memories.

Borgmann, Albert. Crossing the Postmodern Divide.

Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Modernity.

Time to learn. Tim Keefe joins me to talk about the movement of postmodernism understood historically. Where did it start? What is it in response to? What are its claims? Is it a cohesive ideology? Where can we see its influence? All of this will hopefully be answered.

Bibliography for this episode

Anderson, Perry. The Origins of Postmoderism.

Belsey, Catherine. Postructuralism: A Short Introduction.

Berman, Marshall. All That is Solid Melts Into Air.

Chandler, David. Semiotics: The Basics.

Dosse, Francois. History of Structuralism, Vols. 1 and 2.

Gay, Peter. Modernism: The Lure of Heresy.

Moran, Dermot. Introduction to Phenomenology.

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change.

Hasan, Ihab. The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture

Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.

Zizek, Slavoj. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Modernism.

The Cambridge Companion to Marx.

It's the end of a nightmare and I'm relieved. Let's talk about righteousness and law, then I'll just share what's to expect in the next month or so. Get excited, because I am!

James thanks Thaddeus Russell and all the new ears, talks a little about a certain professor he doesn't like, then digs into helping you understand postmodernism as a thing and deconstruction. 

All music done by the unbelievable talent Jared Gregory

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Examine book two of the Earthsea novels, "The Tombs of Atuan," and discover themes about gender, politics, and ritualism.