Originally Posted by Doug McClasky

Nihilism by definition would deny reality since muffukkin the Matrix means that there is no objective reality beyond maybe natural laws like gravity and the conservation of mass and energy.

Not that I'm acknowledging your point as having anything to do with what I said cause it didn't but maybe it had something to do with what something someone else said.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

You seem to be confusing Nihilism for phenomenology.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Doug McClasky

I mean the basic point of post-modernism is that it's trying to describe human nature and existence that is or has been previously indescribable by words due to how ****ing abstract it is, so if it sounds like nonsense then maybe it's because of how poorly words describe abstract ideas in the first place. Or am I off base?

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

You seem to be confusing Nihilism for phenomenology.

Originally Posted by elphenor

postmodernism isn't an argument or a central tenant anymore than Modernism or Romanticism or whatever

it's more akin to a grouping together of a perspective and a variety of artists, writers, architects philosophers etc.

in the case of Foucault, he does not question the existence of an objective reality

what he questions in his writings is the narrative form of evaluating history from which we derive what we often think to be objective truth

Originally Posted by elphenor

it's critical of scientific institutions