- 26 Aug 2006 18:20
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Could someone explain what postmodernism really is? I am a bit confused.
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| I, CWAS | wrote:Potemkin has described it perfectly.
So, instead of folloing one metanarrative, in pomo do you get all eclectic and select elements from a bunch of narratives?
I believe he is correct - pomo is merely the symptom appearing on the superstructural surface of society of the economic development of the capitalist system under conditions of globalisation.
So do you believe the old metanarratives will be fine once globalisation and global warming reduce us all to pre-postmodern living conditions?
Or do you think that, perhaps, environmental conditions and advanced education standards have reduced these traditional metanarratives to being only valuable in understanding the errors of our ancestors?
The Bush administration is very modernist in its application of its own metanarratives onto regions of the world who don't share his belief in them.
"Freedom. Democracy. Global Economic Status Quo. Judeo-Christian Americana."
Or do you think that, perhaps, environmental conditions and advanced education standards have reduced these traditional metanarratives to being only valuable in understanding the errors of our ancestors?
You won't hear any self-respecting Marxist say a good word about postmodernism
It has no real definition or any real meaning. It is just psuedo intelectuals engaged in a wanking competition.
Potemking wrote:It is one of the ironies of history that (vulgar) Marxism became precisely such an 'ideology'. In his questioning of all previous 'ideologies', Marx could be called the first postmodernist.
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