James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose sound like fucking ArmoredSkeptic, lmfao
Yes, I am reading Cynical Theory, I want to laugh my ass off at how bad this is.
The reason your term is clunky is because it& #39;s an overgeneralizing term. It& #39;s used with reckless abandon by idiots who have an axe to grind with french philosophers, but that& #39;s not going to stop you, clearly.
Oh, so this is just cultural analysis? Joy, I can treat this with the same level of buttfuckery that I do Mark Fisher.
If you genuinely wanted to explain this broad acceptance "through the academy", maybe getting clear on what the hell actually happened in the academy might have been a good idea? In which case the taxonomies would have helped, and clarified your problems a bit better.
But we& #39;ll see!