/426/ Expropriate the Canon ft. Catherine Liu (Patreon)

On the disaster of the culture wars.

[Patreon Exclusive]

Regular contributor Catherine Liu is back on to talk about her essay in Damage, issue 2, "Professional Populists in the Culture Wars". We discuss:

• What were the original 'culture wars' and how are they different to today?

• Was there a need in the 1980s to "disrupt" the humanities?

•  Is everyone an “academic populist” now?

• Why does conservatism now need to wear "populist" clothes?

• How should we defend the "canon"?

• What is the "Catherine Liu Foundation for Attacking Badness"?

Links:

• Professional Populists in the Culture Wars, Catherine Liu, Damage

• /246/ Why Isn't There Revolution? ft. Vivek Chibber

• /67/ Legacies of Postmodernism ft. Catherine Liu

• Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Janice Radway