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The Calamity of Scientific Gnosticism

  • August 19, 2021
  • James Lindsay
The Calamity of Scientific Gnosticism
Scientific Gnosticism is perhaps the most calamitous ideological phylum human beings have so far managed to contrive.
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A Summary of Neo-Marxism
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A Summary of Neo-Marxism

  • June 3, 2021
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In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he reads through and adds nuance and detail to the relevant "neo-Marxism" entry in his Critical Social Justice Encyclopedia so that you can better understand where Wokeness comes from and how it thinks and operates.
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Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism
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Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

  • May 28, 2021
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In this episode, Lindsay takes considerable time explaining Hegel's view of dialectical thought and then reveals in many examples, reaching up to the present day, how consistently the dialectic appears as the functional underpinning of Leftism ever since, at the latest, the 1830s.
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Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite
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Bourgeois Overproduction and the Problem of the Fake Elite

  • May 20, 2021
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In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks through the idea of elite overproduction to focus in on the operant problem that it leads to, bourgeois overproduction, and posits that this problem is the seat of the Woke menace and many of the large-scale ills that have arisen in similar form over the past few centuries in prosperous societies.
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How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

  • May 17, 2021
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Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, in which he tries to articulate that principled argument for vaccine hesitancy and thus also the path away from it, should our institutional authorities want to achieve it.
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The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable
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The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

  • May 7, 2021
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Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses podcast to learn about the long history of unreason in Wokeness and even its all-out rejection of the notion that anyone or any position at all can be reasonable in any meaningful sense.
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Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin
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Equity and the Unmaking of UT Austin

  • May 3, 2021
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In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay takes this jargon-heavy plan and reads through it, breaking it down so that people outside of the inner circle of UT Austin's diversicracy can make sense of what these plans entail.
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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real
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Authenticity and the Woke Crisis of the Real

  • April 28, 2021
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In this episode of the New Discourses podcast, join James Lindsay for a detailed discussion of the crisis of authenticity at the heart of the Woke project and its predecessors as well as a discussion of what it means to approach authenticity for yourself.
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OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?
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OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?

  • March 6, 2021
  • James Lindsay
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I try to go into the complicated relationship between French, American, and German ideas (and some British and Australian ones) as they have come together to form Wokeness, dipping even into Marx's reliance upon Rousseau, who the French certainly can't deny.
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Why the World is the Way It Is: Cultural Relativism and It’s Descendents
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Why the World is the Way It Is: Cultural Relativism and Its Descendents

  • November 12, 2020
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Relativism contends that all truth is relative except for the claim that “truth is relative.”
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The Most Dangerous Place To Be

  • September 2, 2020
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Most of the young people currently demolishing America’s statues were born too late to have picked up the habit from watching the attacks on statues of Lenin in the early 1990s, or of Saddam Hussein in the early 2000s.
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2+2 Never Equals 5
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2+2 Never Equals 5

  • August 3, 2020
  • James Lindsay
“Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows” -George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four
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The Complex Relationship between Marxism and Wokeness
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The Complex Relationship between Marxism and Wokeness

  • July 28, 2020
  • James Lindsay
People who observe that Marxism is somehow tied into all of this Woke stuff, then, are certainly not wrong, but it just as certainly isn’t Marxism.
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Helen Pluckrose: The Evolution of Postmodern Thought
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Helen Pluckrose: The Evolution of Postmodern Thought

  • June 22, 2020
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Helen Pluckrose develops the definition of "Social Justice" as it is used in the academic literature in this tradition, explains its connections to identity politics and the political correctness movement, and then shows the relevance of the original postmodernists to this Theory in some detail.
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Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice

  • June 18, 2020
  • James Lindsay and Mike Nayna
Increasingly, we are seeing insistences that Social Justice has become a new religion.
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A Principled Statement of Opposition to Critical Race Theory: An Excerpt from 'Cynical Theories'
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A Principled Statement of Opposition to Critical Race Theory: An Excerpt from ‘Cynical Theories’

  • June 13, 2020
  • James Lindsay
Last year, Helen Pluckrose and I dedicated most of our time to writing a book about how “activist scholarship” has risen to prominence and created societal conditions that threaten to rip our societies apart.
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James Explains: What About Sociology?
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James Explains: What About Sociology?

  • May 30, 2020
  • James Lindsay
Sociology is a complicated topic. As we said when we went public with the Grievance Studies Affair, and as we have come to understand even better since, it's best to think of grievance studies as a kind of infection.
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Chasing the Norm on Near Dark Radio
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Chasing the Norm on Near Dark Radio

  • May 27, 2020
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Join James Lindsay as he sits down with Jon Gower of Near Dark Radio to talk about the controversial French postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault and whether his thought and legacy can be recovered from its clear adaptations and exploitation by the Critical Social Justice movement.
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Countering the Radical Left
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Countering the Radical Left

  • April 28, 2020
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James Lindsay joins Max Klinger on the E2 Review Podcast to discuss Critical Social Justice.
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Postmodernism Versus Critical Social Justice
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Postmodernism Versus Critical Social Justice

  • April 14, 2020
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James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose join old-school postmodernist and libertarian thinker Thaddeus Russell on the Unregistered podcast.
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