Message from @Hooty

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2018-07-18 23:59:01 UTC  

explain what critical theory>?

2018-07-18 23:59:21 UTC  

idk u were easking him about cultural marxism

2018-07-18 23:59:27 UTC  

u must have a bad memory or something xd

2018-07-18 23:59:32 UTC  

or maybe ur just mr.debatetactics idk

2018-07-18 23:59:38 UTC  

crit·i·cal the·o·ry
noun
a philosophical approach to culture, and especially to literature, that seeks to confront the social, historical, and ideological forces and structures that produce and constrain it. The term is applied particularly to the work of the Frankfurt School.

2018-07-18 23:59:43 UTC  

The frankfurt school were a loosely organized group of writers that analysed western culture, art and all media

2018-07-19 00:00:19 UTC  

yes critical theory is a mix of psychoanalytic theory

2018-07-19 00:00:33 UTC  

marxist critique

2018-07-19 00:00:54 UTC  

and thats it really. the show black mirror is basically

2018-07-19 00:00:58 UTC  

In sociology and political philosophy, the term critical theory describes the neo-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, which was developed in Germany in the 1930s. This use of the term requires proper noun capitalization, whereas "a critical theory" or "a critical social theory" may have similar elements of thought, but not stress its intellectual lineage specifically to the Frankfurt School. Frankfurt School theorists drew on the critical methods of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. Critical theory maintains that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation.

2018-07-19 00:01:34 UTC  

yeah you copy and pasted it

2018-07-19 00:01:46 UTC  

cultural marxism is a meme

2018-07-19 00:01:51 UTC  

it doesnt describe anything

2018-07-19 00:02:08 UTC  

^

2018-07-19 00:02:31 UTC  

it was originally a nazi propaganda idea called "cultural bolshevism"

2018-07-19 00:02:31 UTC  

frankfurt school books are a critique of mass media mostly

2018-07-19 00:02:48 UTC  

so what? its in sociology because thats what sociology is

2018-07-19 00:03:03 UTC  

the critique of society including mass media and so forth

2018-07-19 00:03:21 UTC  

(hooty probably thinks that "sociology" has to do with socialism because the names are similar)

2018-07-19 00:03:27 UTC  

While modernist critical theory (as described above) concerns itself with "forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system", postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems "by situating them in historical and cultural contexts, to implicate themselves in the process of collecting and analyzing data, and to relativize their findings". Meaning itself is seen as unstable due to the rapid transformation in social structures. As a result, the focus of research is centered on local manifestations, rather than broad generalizations.

2018-07-19 00:03:36 UTC  

More nihilism

2018-07-19 00:03:47 UTC  

what are you even copypasting from?

2018-07-19 00:03:50 UTC  

You are getting confused

2018-07-19 00:04:03 UTC  

it's not wikipedia because there's no bracketed citations

2018-07-19 00:04:34 UTC  

You understand critical theory

2018-07-19 00:04:35 UTC  

is like

2018-07-19 00:05:01 UTC  

oh it is wikipedia

2018-07-19 00:05:01 UTC  

full of different analysis

2018-07-19 00:05:09 UTC  

from different authors

2018-07-19 00:05:20 UTC  

its not like they all just wrote the same book

2018-07-19 00:05:30 UTC  

"While critical theorists have been frequently defined as Marxist intellectuals, their tendency to denounce some Marxist concepts and to combine Marxian analysis with other sociological and philosophical traditions has resulted in accusations of revisionism by Classical, Orthodox, and Analytical Marxists"

2018-07-19 00:06:07 UTC  

>when actual marxists hate you because you reject marxism but you're still marxist

2018-07-19 00:06:21 UTC  

Hence neo-marxism

2018-07-19 00:06:28 UTC  

I mean debords society of the spectacle is just about how images define our reality

2018-07-19 00:06:59 UTC  

You havent read anything remotely sociological let alone frankfurt school

2018-07-19 00:07:08 UTC  

But you see it is an attack on meaning

2018-07-19 00:07:25 UTC  

Combined with postmodernism where you can change the definitions of words to mean whatever you want

2018-07-19 00:07:31 UTC  

Fucking jordan peterson

2018-07-19 00:07:35 UTC  

that idiot

2018-07-19 00:07:56 UTC  

Just like communists do