The worst thing Yarvin did for his own reputation was to start speaking for himself rather than letting others speak for him. Instantly gone from Reclusive Magus of the Dark Enlightenment to that arse in the postgrad seminar who’s read the VSI to poststructuralism and thinks everything is a text.
I remember maybe three or four years ago someone introduced me to yarvin and said among other things that what makes him so dangerous is he’s really steeped in history and philosophy. Sophisticated stuff. So I read some stuff and well, no. This is the stuff you say after you read one thing …
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 7:12 PM
The worst thing Yarvin did for his own reputation was to start speaking for himself rather than letting others speak for him. Instantly gone from Reclusive Magus of the Dark Enlightenment to that arse in the postgrad seminar who’s read the VSI to poststructuralism and thinks everything is a text.
You're in good company because most of the theorists we associate with poststructuralism and postmodernism disavowed such terms lol
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
You're in good company because most of the theorists we associate with poststructuralism and postmodernism disavowed such terms lol
I've got an article in the new issue of Angelaki! It's called "Video Games Need a Theory of Language," and the big idea is that video games are actually a kind of writing. If you're unable to access it via a university library, you can use this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JXIMV.... Take a look!
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I've got an article in the new issue of Angelaki! It's called "Video Games Need a Theory of Language," and the big idea is that video games are actually a kind of writing. If you're unable to access it via a university library, you can use this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JXIMV.... Take a look!
Our studies of corruption included work by Margit Tavits (quant. pol. sci.), Brian Fried et al. (mixed methods), Alpa Shah (ethnography), Mark Warren (pol. theory) & Tara Polzer (poststructuralism).
All tough studies!
So proud of my students, who kept seeing things I'd never spotted before.
4/4
All tough studies!
So proud of my students, who kept seeing things I'd never spotted before.
4/4
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Our studies of corruption included work by Margit Tavits (quant. pol. sci.), Brian Fried et al. (mixed methods), Alpa Shah (ethnography), Mark Warren (pol. theory) & Tara Polzer (poststructuralism).
All tough studies!
So proud of my students, who kept seeing things I'd never spotted before.
4/4
All tough studies!
So proud of my students, who kept seeing things I'd never spotted before.
4/4
As @rusty.todayintabs.com pointed out a while back, this is why tech bros need poststructuralism. Language is a tool for thought that we mistake for thought itself
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As @rusty.todayintabs.com pointed out a while back, this is why tech bros need poststructuralism. Language is a tool for thought that we mistake for thought itself
🪡 In my experience, working at regional (Latin America) and international digital rights NGOs, as a Mexican non-binary person I’ve seen firsthand the impacts of cultural feminism in civil society and its influence through economic support or “protections” to people and orgs who harm trans people.
December 16, 2024 at 7:13 PM
🪡 In my experience, working at regional (Latin America) and international digital rights NGOs, as a Mexican non-binary person I’ve seen firsthand the impacts of cultural feminism in civil society and its influence through economic support or “protections” to people and orgs who harm trans people.
So my lit theory students are facing the first "big" hurdle of the term: poststructuralism.
I am so proud of this group. They are asking one another questions, providing their "takes" on the theory, and using this challenge as a way to practice thinking in a new way. I'm a happy teacher today.
I am so proud of this group. They are asking one another questions, providing their "takes" on the theory, and using this challenge as a way to practice thinking in a new way. I'm a happy teacher today.
November 11, 2024 at 10:07 PM
So my lit theory students are facing the first "big" hurdle of the term: poststructuralism.
I am so proud of this group. They are asking one another questions, providing their "takes" on the theory, and using this challenge as a way to practice thinking in a new way. I'm a happy teacher today.
I am so proud of this group. They are asking one another questions, providing their "takes" on the theory, and using this challenge as a way to practice thinking in a new way. I'm a happy teacher today.
any movement which can agree on whether it was branched from poststructuralism isn't
September 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
any movement which can agree on whether it was branched from poststructuralism isn't
@mccaine.bsky.social you got any takes on “new materialism”? seems to have a lot of the same problems as old materialism AND poststructuralism, ie impenetrable jargon
September 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
@mccaine.bsky.social you got any takes on “new materialism”? seems to have a lot of the same problems as old materialism AND poststructuralism, ie impenetrable jargon
I had that foucault picture where he’s resting his chin on his hands. I think i was designed to be into poststructuralism.
January 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I had that foucault picture where he’s resting his chin on his hands. I think i was designed to be into poststructuralism.
they just intrinsically “get” derrida, poststructuralism, etc
March 31, 2024 at 8:44 PM
they just intrinsically “get” derrida, poststructuralism, etc
Bodybuilding and Poststructuralism: A Response to Daniele Bolelli
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Bodybuilding and Poststructuralism: A Response to Daniele Bolelli
Daniele Bolelli recently wrote a beautiful short piece called ‘The Tao of Lifting Weights’.
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April 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Bodybuilding and Poststructuralism: A Response to Daniele Bolelli
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2. What does the “post” in “poststructuralism” refer to (you must respond merely beyond the term “structuralism”)?
December 3, 2024 at 8:45 AM
2. What does the “post” in “poststructuralism” refer to (you must respond merely beyond the term “structuralism”)?
Fine arts, fwiw, are not humanities — I’m sorry to say but the hated poststructuralism exists to make legible the self-dissolving assertions, assumptions, & claims of both the humanities & the sciences — ideological truth claims by either are not just dangerous but always false
July 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Fine arts, fwiw, are not humanities — I’m sorry to say but the hated poststructuralism exists to make legible the self-dissolving assertions, assumptions, & claims of both the humanities & the sciences — ideological truth claims by either are not just dangerous but always false
Do not tell me to read Butler. I'm trying. Same with Goffman. And do not dare assume I can know what poststructuralism or postmodernism is. I cannot, I have tried.
September 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Do not tell me to read Butler. I'm trying. Same with Goffman. And do not dare assume I can know what poststructuralism or postmodernism is. I cannot, I have tried.
“Some journalists (& designers) don't understand what science is <a href="http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2013/07/some-journalists-and-designers-dont.html”" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2013/07/some-journalists-and-designers-dont.html” @albertocairo Or poststructuralism for that matter
November 18, 2024 at 1:36 AM
“Some journalists (& designers) don't understand what science is <a href="http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2013/07/some-journalists-and-designers-dont.html”" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2013/07/some-journalists-and-designers-dont.html” @albertocairo Or poststructuralism for that matter
I needed to find a paper discussing poststructuralism to reference for my dissertation research and this post showed up in my feed. How fortuitous. 😉 Thank you @paulbowman.bsky.social !
January 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I needed to find a paper discussing poststructuralism to reference for my dissertation research and this post showed up in my feed. How fortuitous. 😉 Thank you @paulbowman.bsky.social !
I got over what I was taught about interpretation in high school. Of course, I went to school right after at a place where poststructuralism was ascendant and then it was anything goes. Now I'm somewhere between the two poles, but outside that, even.
April 8, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I got over what I was taught about interpretation in high school. Of course, I went to school right after at a place where poststructuralism was ascendant and then it was anything goes. Now I'm somewhere between the two poles, but outside that, even.
Not to mention that all those no good Frenchies, with their materialism and rejection of Jung in favor of Freud LOVE to shit all over Jung for his idealism.
Which I think is half of JPs visceral hatred of all things that have even touched poststructuralism. /&&
Which I think is half of JPs visceral hatred of all things that have even touched poststructuralism. /&&
November 23, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Not to mention that all those no good Frenchies, with their materialism and rejection of Jung in favor of Freud LOVE to shit all over Jung for his idealism.
Which I think is half of JPs visceral hatred of all things that have even touched poststructuralism. /&&
Which I think is half of JPs visceral hatred of all things that have even touched poststructuralism. /&&
Reading about and agreeing with poststructuralism
October 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Reading about and agreeing with poststructuralism
Poststructuralism and Self-Censorship at Palais de Tokyo
https://www.europesays.com/ie/193597/
What does this bookwormish exhibition have to say about the histories and afterlives of critical discourses? Just one…
https://www.europesays.com/ie/193597/
What does this bookwormish exhibition have to say about the histories and afterlives of critical discourses? Just one…
Poststructuralism and Self-Censorship at Palais de Tokyo - Ireland
What does this bookwormish exhibition have to say about the histories and afterlives of critical discourses?
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November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Poststructuralism and Self-Censorship at Palais de Tokyo
https://www.europesays.com/ie/193597/
What does this bookwormish exhibition have to say about the histories and afterlives of critical discourses? Just one…
https://www.europesays.com/ie/193597/
What does this bookwormish exhibition have to say about the histories and afterlives of critical discourses? Just one…
I going to have to reread a bunch of postmodernism and poststructuralism, aren’t I?
March 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I going to have to reread a bunch of postmodernism and poststructuralism, aren’t I?
The American far-right believe poststructuralism and postmodernism are entirely nonsense, junk ideas without reasonable insights, while at the same time they are destroying the country because they feel so threatened, in their very sense of reality, by the slippery definitions of some words.
April 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The American far-right believe poststructuralism and postmodernism are entirely nonsense, junk ideas without reasonable insights, while at the same time they are destroying the country because they feel so threatened, in their very sense of reality, by the slippery definitions of some words.
oooh that's some poststructuralism from an angle I haven't engaged with before, interesting!
September 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
oooh that's some poststructuralism from an angle I haven't engaged with before, interesting!