dmb said: I think it's an uncanny description of Marsha's attitude, don't you?
DT replied: Honestly? I think trying to evaluate a serious biological condition on the basis of email list posts by even by someone trained and certified to practice psychology or psychiatry would be irresponsible. By a untrained layperson, morally repugnant. ... [Ron] I think the interesting point about the article was how a "postmodernist" is identified, making a rhetorical arguement and discussion in an effort to persuade them a futile endeavor. They do not value epistemic virtues. The archives could support Marsha's point of view as favoring postmodernism. Stanford says: "it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning. " "Baudrillard finds a prime example of this strategy with graffiti artists who experiment with symbolic markings and codes in order to suggest communication while blocking it, and who sign their inscriptions with pseudonyms instead of recognizable names. “They are seeking not to escape the combinatory in order to regain an identity,” says Baudrillard, “but to turn indeterminacy against the system, to turn indeterminacy into extermination” (Baudrillard 1993, 78). " To be clear it is Stamos that is drawing the comparison between postmodernist temperments and psychopathic tendancies. I think DmB simply finds this amusing however I found another interesting interpretation in that: "Postmodernism is essentially a cultural movement rather than a philosophical movement. Its defenders are concerned with changing the culture more than with philosophical theses per se. As Stephen Hicks pointed out in his talks on Postmodernism two summers ago, Postmodernists are defenders of a political position first, and concerned with philosophical ideas only as a means to the defense of their politics." Which may explain the inability to provide a coherent set of philosophic ideas that explain why their point of view is better for the culture than any cultural movements whose adherents accept the possibility of scientific advancement, philosophical enlightenment, and identifiable standards for aesthetics. .. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
