32 - Oliver Traldi and Victor Rivera - Philosophy, Postmodernism and Types of Meaning

3:40 Chapo Trap House and the phenomenon of internet trolling
8:34 Jordan Peterson
38:01 Postmodernism versus analytic philosophy
40:10 The difference between the new critical theorists and the classic postmodernists
43:56 The implications of this for literary criticism
50:19 Baudrillard—Oliver's favourite postmodernist
51:33 Why postmodernism isn't neo-Marxist
55:35 Complicity and trolling
1:07:30 Free speech, social media and content moderation
1:27:52 Should Oliver celebrate things more and write fewer snarky takedowns?

Oliver’s column for Arc Digital can be found here:
https://arcdigital.media/@olivertraldi.

Oliver’s articles for Areo can be found here:
https://areomagazine.com/author/ideologjammin/

You can follow Oliver on Twitter @olivertraldi

Victor’s podcast can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8gR852kIfIaSLTY5FFMBUg

You can follow Victor on Twitter @cognitivicta

Further References

Oliver’s article on Chapo Trap House and Jordan Peterson:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/10/clean-rooms-and-dirtbags/

Oliver on complicity:
https://arcdigital.media/one-of-the-most-prominent-norms-on-social-media-is-complicity-c24bd117101c

Democratic Socialists of America:
https://www.dsausa.org/

“The Intentional Fallacy” from The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. W. K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Monroe C. Beardsley (1954):
http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/seminar/Fallacy.htm

Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999) and 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018)

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s interview with Jordan Peterson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWhuQOVTFGw

Cathy Young’s piece on Candace Owens for Quillette:
https://quillette.com/2018/05/08/problem-candace-owens/

Jordan Peterson’s interview with Cathy Newman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

Jordan Peterson discusses his concept of truth on Sam Harris’ podcast Making Sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OqrZs9srHs

Jean Baudrillard, The Iraq War Did Not Take Place (1995):
http://halliejones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Baudrillard-The-Gulf-War-did-not-Take-Place.pdf

“Postmodernism isn’t playing around anymore” article by Oliver Traldi:
https://areomagazine.com/2018/01/08/postmodernism-isnt-playing-around-anymore/

John Milon, Paradise Lost (1667); Alexander Pope, To a Lady. Of the Characters of Women (1743).

Gurwinder Bhogal on deradicalising Neo-Nazis on Twitter:
https://areomagazine.com/2017/10/28/how-not-to-de-radicalize-a-twitter-neo-nazi/

Also mentioned: Kate Manne; Luce Iragaray; Robin Di Angelo; Sarah Haider; Shoe 0n Head; James Damore; Stefan Molyneux; Robby Soave