Poststructuralism Gone Bad

This is my second response to comments at feministe.
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/09/08/stealth-was-a-mistake/
This is an experiment in live blogging a comment thread.

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[Tcheera]

@SwedxSimon02 NO U. Actually, that's just my favorite silly internet response when I'm feeling lazy, but that is really kinda what I wanted to say- No YOU mean post-modernism. I honestly think only a total pseudo-intellectual who hangs out in coffee shops wearing black turtle necks (which is so 2 decades ago) would even bother at this juncture trying to differentiate the two terms in that way. And plenty of philosophers would argue with you depending from which discipline they hailed.

[SwedxSimon02]

beforehand and without pretending that your results could be as unproblematically generalized as in natural sciences. I believe it's more or less inbuilt in new modernist research. I guess you can say post-structuralism is a reasonable instability in social science, while post-modernism is an individualized inability for even shaping this (in relation to natural science) instable science since everything gets subjective.

/word poop over

[SwedxSimon02]

You mean post-modernism gone bad, not post-structuralism. The two are definitely not the same. Post-structuralism was mainly a 60s/70s intellectual tool to criticize grand, ''catch all'' theories which tried to immitate natural science concepts with ''simple'', underlying and unchangeable patterns controlling the social mass - and to instead research separate areas as separate areas without squeezing them all in to a grand theory --