[BlueTemplar]

Yeah, isn't it basically a repeat of Jordan Peterson's criticism of 'French Theory' academics ?

I don't know that much about 'postmodernism', but it seems like both JP and the North American academics responsible for the 'French Theory' are pretty much misunderstanding those French philosophers (which is partially the fault of French philosopher's dense prose, which isn't new for philosophers (I hear some Germans are even worse ?), and maybe also the North American academics being unable to read French, which is new ?

https://medium.com/s/story/peterson-historian-aide-m%C3%A9mo...

https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/french-theory-how-foucault-derrida-...

Funnily enough, Peterson is in a way right about calling their bullshit ? But that's easier than being constructive... (Which he probably also is in that book of his, but self-help isn't philosophy.)

[ostrophene]

French intellectual celebs from the period only started talking postmodernism in the 70s and 80s, after Anglos started asking them about it!

the idea itself is largely derived from Fredric Jameson's writings on it in the 1980s. he characterizes it primarily as a flattening of emotional and historical affect such that all time periods represented in culture fundamentally partake of a liberal market-oriented ideological framework. in that sense, Foucault can be seen as paradigmatic through his willful 'rewriting' of the historical archive.