Of course I -- I don't know about you -- "enjoy" taking pot shots at Postmodernism since I can't capitalize myself enough to be able to just ignore it....
But postmodernists aren't the only pompous -sses in this world. Sokal and Bricemont, with their article on the political correctness property of quarks (or whatever it was), did not discover something new in the world, only new instances of it.
Here's something from yesterday's NYT about Christopher Alexander's architecture education back before pomo:
Asked as part of one assignment [when he was
studying architecture at Cambridge University]
to design a house, he instead submitted a spoof
of the formalist theory he had been taught:
a glass box slashed by giant brick walls.
"A completely abstract, pointless notion,"
he said. To his amazement, the head of the
department called him into his office to
congratulate him. "He said, 'Christopher, my
boy, this is exactly what we want,'" Mr. Alexander
recalled. "I thought, Oh my God, I've walked
into the nut house."
(Emily Eakin, "Architecture's Irascible
Reformer", NYT, 12Jul03, p.B7,9.)\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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