Timeline for What is postmodernism?
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 22:45 | comment | added | Joseph Weissman♦ | It's certainly overtly and provocatively overloaded. At least in some contexts some of the ambiguity is undoubtedly intentional... | |
| Jun 15, 2011 at 17:58 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | When you start an answer with the idea that a definition is impossible and then write almost 800 words on the meaningless of a term, it's difficult to read the answer as neutral. It's also not a postmodern analysis in my book, but a modern one. (But you've already rejected the definition of postmodern that I think appropriate. ;-) | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 23:23 | comment | added | Cody Gray | It's also interesting that, though I didn't at all intend this answer negatively, others read it that way. If anything, my answer is a critical interpretation of the term, and I've written it like a "postmodernist" might. And I suppose that the analyticists see it as negative. I think the performance here is the best definition you're going to get. :-) | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 23:21 | comment | added | Cody Gray | I'm not sure how this is "unsympathetic" since it's not about a particular person. The postmodernists didn't invent the term. Lyotard is the only one who ever talked about the "postmodern condition", and even he doesn't consider himself a postmodernIST. Above all, it isn't an advocacy. The term itself is amorphous and difficult to nail down. I've read others liken it to "trying to nail a blob of jelly to the wall". But that's not really someone's fault, and I see no particular reason why we ought to try and rescue or rehabilitate the term. | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 22:12 | comment | added | Joseph Weissman♦ | @Jon I don't read this as "rant." The term is quite problematic. | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 19:03 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | What a harsh and unsympathetic answer! I can't disagree with you as you clearly are more well-read on the subject than I am, but there's a strong undercurrent of a rant in this answer. It's frustrating to deal with a moving, anamorphic target. To me, "postmodern" will be better defined by later generations who will have the proper distance to evaluate the various counter-proposals to various modernist philosophies. | |
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| Jun 14, 2011 at 8:56 | history | answered | Cody Gray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |