Postmodernism - I've been intrigued since David mentioned it :
(Postmodernism is not inherently rubbish - it is indeed a fantastically useful tool in criticism and understanding of human culture, and other human activities that might as well be culture. As Lucidfox points out, rather more is relative than most people assume, and postmodernism is useful in working out what that is. Any writer should IMO have a working familiarity with its tools. However, some proponents really don't realise that reality exists, and they end up slightly embarrassed.)
(There's already an article on RationalWiki)
Postmodernism - I've been intrigued since David mentioned it :
I'm interested in the general category of social science ideas that were big and important 50 or 100 years ago, but have since fallen out of favor. I'm sure guys like Freud, Jung, Weber, Marx, and Durkheim had some interesting ideas. I'd like to know what those ideas were, and why people at the time took them so seriously.
Are there any areas of study that you feel are underrepresented here, and would be interesting and useful to lesswrongers?
I feel some topics are getting old (Omega, drama about moderation policy, a newcomer telling us our lack of admiration for his ideas is proof of groupthink, Friendly AI, Cryonics, Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality, lamenting how we're a bunch of self-centered nerds, etc. ...), and with a bit of luck, we might have some lurkers that are knowledgeable about interesting areas, and didn't think they could contribute.
Please stick to one topic per comment, so that highly-upvoted topics stand out more clearly.