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A framework drawing on postmodern thought that questions grand narratives of scientific progress, exposes power relations embedded in scientific practice, deconstructs binary oppositions (nature/culture, objective/subjective), and attends to marginalized voices excluded from scientific discourse. Postmodernist Science doesn't deny that science produces knowledge—it denies that this knowledge comes from nowhere, serves everyone equally, or stands outside history. It studies how scientific truth is produced through discourse, how power shapes research agendas, and how excluded perspectives haunt the scientific canon. It's science studies that has taken the critical turn.
Theory of Postmodernist Science "You think science is pure truth-seeking. Postmodernist Science asks: who funds the research? Whose questions get asked? Who benefits? Not because science is wrong—because pretending it's innocent is naive. Science always has politics. Postmodernism just refuses to look away."
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A framework applying postmodern critique to the plurality of sciences—questioning grand narratives about scientific unity, exposing power relations embedded in disciplinary boundaries, deconstructing hierarchies among sciences, and attending to marginalized sciences excluded from the canon. Postmodernist Sciences doesn't deny that sciences produce knowledge—it denies that the current configuration of sciences is natural, inevitable, or complete. It studies how disciplines form, how boundaries are drawn, how some sciences become prestigious while others are marginalized, and how excluded knowledges haunt the scientific field.
Theory of Postmodernist Sciences "You think the current sciences are just natural categories. Postmodernist Sciences asks: why physics at the top? Why is some knowledge 'science' and other knowledge 'tradition'? These aren't natural; they're historical, political. Postmodernism doesn't reject sciences—it asks why they're arranged this way, who benefits, and what's been excluded. The questions are uncomfortable; that's the point."
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The application of Critical Theory to history after 1900—examining how recent history is constructed, how it serves contemporary politics, and what's at stake in its telling. Critical Theory of Post-1900 History asks: Who writes the history of the recent past? How do contemporary power relations shape what's remembered and what's forgotten? How are histories of trauma, revolution, and resistance told—and by whom? Drawing on memory studies and critical historiography, it insists that post-1900 history is never just the past—it's the present arguing about itself through stories of what just happened.
"We know what happened, we were there, they say. Critical Theory of Post-1900 History asks: do we? Memory is selective, contested. The same events are remembered differently by victors and victims. Post-1900 history isn't settled; it's fought over. Critical theory insists on asking: whose memory counts, and whose is erased—and what does that tell us about power today?"
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A rhetorical move where one claims to occupy an "objective position" free from bias, then uses that claimed objectivity to dismiss others as biased—while simultaneously accusing them of "appeal to authority" whenever they cite experts. The fallacy combines the worst of both worlds: the arrogance of claiming objectivity (Objectivity Bias) with the weaponization of fallacy accusations (Fallacy of Authority accusations). The result is a position that can't be challenged: any expert cited is dismissed as "appeal to authority," while one's own claims are protected by the mantle of "objectivity." It's a rhetorical fortress with no windows.
"She cited climate scientists. 'Appeal to authority!' he declared. He then stated his own opinion as 'just the objective truth.' That's Fallacy of Objective Position: his views are objective; her experts are fallacies. The double standard is the point. He occupies the objective position—conveniently defined as wherever he stands."
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This is a gemoetry dash meme that originates for the youtuber @ItsMeGeoGD from his series where he fixes the hitboxes of each geometry dash main levels. The reason is cause of how geometry dash's hazard hixboxes aren't accurate to the visual of the hazard object. Starting from the level "Bloodbath" by the creator Riot, he would continue the series with all the 22 main levels of the game from the first level, "Stereo Madness" all the way to the 22nd level, "Dash". Since then the GD Community made this a meme where they would comment this everywhere in any gd
John: But is it possible with accurate hitboxes?
Sarah: What are you talking about??
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21st Century Postmodernism

The contemporary evolution of postmodern thought, adapted to the conditions of the digital age—social media, information saturation, algorithmic reality, and the collapse of traditional authority structures. 21st Century Postmodernism retains the core postmodern insights (the constructed nature of truth, the role of power in knowledge, the critique of grand narratives) while applying them to new phenomena: viral misinformation, identity politics, platform capitalism, and the fragmentation of shared reality. It's postmodernism for the age of Twitter, where everyone has a platform and no one has authority; for the age of deepfakes, where seeing is no longer believing; for the age of echo chambers, where truth is what your tribe says it is. 21st Century Postmodernism is less a philosophical movement than a description of how we actually live—in a world where grand narratives have collapsed and been replaced by infinite micro-narratives, all competing for attention, none able to command consensus.
Example: "He used to think postmodernism was an academic fad. Then he watched his Facebook feed: competing realities, each side accusing the other of being brainwashed, no shared facts, no common ground. 21st Century Postmodernism wasn't a theory anymore; it was his daily life. The grand narratives were dead; only the tribes remained."
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The projection of postmodern thought into the future, imagining how its core insights will evolve as technology, society, and consciousness transform. Third Millennium Postmodernism anticipates a world where the boundaries between human and machine, natural and artificial, real and virtual have dissolved completely—where the constructed nature of reality is not just a philosophical insight but a lived experience. In this future, postmodernism is not a critique of grand narratives but the default state of existence: we will constantly navigate multiple realities, multiple identities, multiple truths, with no expectation of unity. Third Millennium Postmodernism is the philosophy of the post-human, the post-truth, the post-everything—a toolkit for surviving in a world where nothing is fixed and everything is possible.
Example: "The VR environment allowed users to create their own realities, their own truths, their own identities. Third Millennium Postmodernism had become not philosophy but user experience. There was no 'real' world anymore—just infinite constructed ones, each as valid as any other. The question wasn't 'what's true?' but 'which reality do you want to inhabit today?'"
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