The Head Shop

From Barbelith

The Head Shop is for the discussion of Philosophy and Cultural Studies - including postmodernity, deconstruction, marxism, Queer Theory, Feminism. Stuff like that. Consider it a place in which to analyse the 21st Century?.

The Head Shop is one of the most serious bits of Barbelith; a throwaway gag that would be laughed at in the Conversation might get requests not to rot the thread in the Head Shop). Despite this, topics shouldn't be started in the Head Shop simply because "they're serious or thoughtful and that's where that stuff goes" - musings on scientific matters might be far better off in the Laboratory, for example.

The Head Shop, despite its name, is *not* for discussions about where to get drugs, or what effects drugs have, although a thread on the ethics of legalizing narcotics would be perfectly at home. These go in the Conversation, or occasionally the Magic or the Laboratory.

Some particularly good Head Shop threads:

• Tell us what you know!..(about Nietzsche) (http://www.barbelith.com/underground/topic.php?id=8395Z)