Archive - Post-Modern Sophists Blog

A Short Reflection on Violence

Just as everything is political, just as everything is ideological, it is true, or at least, in the current epoch of postmodern capitalism, that…

Jul 13, 2022 •

Ajay Chakraborty

September 2021

The Cultural Politics of Shoegaze

Capitalist Alienation, Utopian Music, and the Genre that Saw the Future

Sep 16, 2021 •

Ajay Chakraborty

Time for some Post-Modern Neo-Marxism

Jordan B. Peterson has recently been cropping up in the news; let's review some of his frankly silly arguments

Sep 15, 2021

July 2021

Elon Musk, Roland Barthes, and Saturday Night live

Musk's appearance on SNL was laughable, but not because it was funny

Jul 10, 2021 •

Ajay Chakraborty

June 2021

Conservatives, Critical Race Theory and the Trans Panic

The current conservative panic is part of a larger right-wing ideological plan

Jun 14, 2021

May 2021

The Culture Industry Re-Revisited

Examining the relationship between the culture industry, the right, and actual critique of art under capitalism

May 26, 2021

A Wanna-be Petrostate

Israel and its function in global economy

May 22, 2021 •

Alexander Jordan

Dia-Shrek-tical Materialism

The art in "Shrek 2" reveals a larger condition of late capitalism

May 9, 2021

Philosophy, culture, philosophy, and philosophy

Welcome to the Postmodern Sophist Newsletter. The PoMo Sophists bloggers write about culture, philosophy, and current events in novel and intriguing…

May 9, 2021 •

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