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Two short and easy postmoderist texts:

Roland Barthes' "The Wrestlers"

Louis Althusser's "Ideological State Apparatus"

Althusser happened to have murdered his wife, and got away with it.

If you want to go deep into this read Derrida's "Of Grammatology".

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I know lots from Barthes and Foucault and Derrida. On the PhD level, I encountered these writers - which totally did not make sense to me - but were hailed as revolutionary - maybe because they fit with the inner reality of many young profs. As I wrote in one of the comments, I have had hardly any vaccines.

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They made great sense to me. Which is why I was so worried given the impact it was having on my peers.

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Are you very vaccinated? I had zero childhood vaccines except for smallpox. And then nothing until one other v at age 12.

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How fortunate. Your parents are/were brilliant.

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Same here, polio and pox I think as a child (don't remember was too small) At first I thought it was just polio. But I got very sick of one and had to be hospitalized so I think that was pox. And then 7 to come to the states LOL.

But of course, I was in my 40s and it seems my brain is mostly intact. Well I hope. I was appalled at that obligatory jab series, which I did twice because my first green card was refused. And then I was totally disgusted to read that children here get 70 shots in schooltime! I dont know exactly for Europe but found Belgium only has only 1 obligatory, polio, and the rest is by choice. I think most children get a couple like measles, probably in school.

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It was the most antisocial/unempathic/self-obsessed - all id, if we are talking psychoanalytically - students/tutors who clove to these pm theories in my experience, so I think you are correct.

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Is this related to quantum language?

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