Episode 152 Joshua Hansen on Tractatus AntiAcademicus

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A principal text within the nascent discipline of Academiology, the Tractatus Anti-Academicus evaluates the epistemic and metaphysical foundations of academic authority, placing them under sustained analysis and strict critical scrutiny. • Drawing from Critical Theory, Critical University Studies, Poststructualism, and Critical Rationalism, the Tractatus unveils the movement called “Total Deconstruction, pushing Western metaphysics to the absolute brink, and surgically undermining the philosophical credentials for academia's overall credibility. • Identifying Academic Rationalism as “the hypothesis that academics know what they're talking about (a significant source of contemporary normativity), the Tractatus goes on to systematically refute this position, along with problematizing the idea of the University and Academia as a force for good in society, greatly impeaching these pervasive notions. • Providing an initial groundwork for the theoretical liquidation of the university and academia tout court, the Tractatus Anti-Academicus can be considered nothing less than a blueprint for the controlled demolition of the entire Enlightenment project. • Never trust anyone with a PhD again... • Find on Amazon today at: • https://www.amazon.com/Tractatus-Anti... • ------------ • Joshua Hansen is a US-based cultural theorist focused on hypermodernity, metamodernism and the rise of digital religion. His work aims to demystify contemporary technoculture and operates at the intersection of Academia, Science the Internet. Hansen’s first book, Tractatus Anti-Academicus, was published in 2023. • You can find more of Joshua's work here: • Twitter: • / hypertheology • YouTube: • / @hypertheology

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