What do you think post-modernism is? I had understood post-modernism as the recognition that the grand-narratives of modernism, the ideologies and paradigms that littered much of the 19th and 20th century, had all failed and that in their place we contemplate a fragmented and heterogeneous world-view where no single outlook could dominate. In such a condition the narratives of diverse cultures around the world are considered of equal value, if not equal power.
Your view of the post-modern seems conflated with something else. But perhaps I am wrong... Best Simon On 19/06/2011 11:41, "Andreas Maria Jacobs" <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought post-modernity is founded on economical inequality expressed as an > elitist conceptual approach towards its own narrow circle of like minded and > privileged fellow travelers They, i.e. postmodernists, forget that the > majority of the people still are living in conditions not so different from > 19th century juvenile capitalism, and only the exclusive domain of the > western world is 'trying' to overcome and starting to live in a presumable > postmodern condition. Alas for the rest of the world, post modernist > developments underestimate the economical ties between wanted intellectual > and economical freedom and actual economical and intellectual enslavement > and prison-ship -- Andreas Maria Jacobs w: http://nictoglobe.com w: > http://burgerwaanzin.nl w: http://nictoglobe.com/new/agam e: > [email protected] e: [email protected] On Mon, March 7, 2011 14:52, Rob > Myers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2011/03/augmented-inequality.html > > "When > thinking about the profound changes introduced by digital > technology at a > social, economic and political level, it is > interesting to see recent > arguments being made in terms of two > elites battling out for supremacy > over who is able to 'control' > culture and serve as the gatekeepers to it > (see Jarvis 2011, > Anderson 2011). Here I want to think of them as two > camps, on the > one side we have what I call the moderns, represented by > writers > like Nick Carr (2011) and Matthew Crawford (2010), and in the > > postmodern camp writers like Jeff Jarvis (2011) and Clay Shirky > (2010). > > [...] > However, the arguments of the postmoderns have an important and > > critical flaw they are blind to the problems created by economic i > > nequality. " > > [Dave Berry, the author of the above, is giving a talk with > Simon > Yuill in London on the 11th March, which I'd highly recommend - > > http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/calendar/?id=4342 ] > > - -Rob. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNdOMGAAoJEOqcdhxmxssCo9wIAIeMfV3gs+syKRGUci3gJL9o > > C8p09KwCCDy6nCJKLjgYw32yg7A/EbHVfKtxsMBdkfr6VIb3LIFw4GgjtZv6WO3z > > yXwuapGw71jTEilqs+2r+jemHg2lM1Eaz0vXoroZMLrEaaFwy/nnKzl2oNNRI3cu > > 60Jlq+CIzVruBbLPzVngeZtE9UgrtfZzVN/3SLCVvRyUKjtRbuvogk5U2EUitZSa > > quH3JvPthJ5AvGqN9B9Ed4pKG81LQUfMU6cWHcjh012r6PNHBph6xgr1uV8Mag/v > > 7g6kIHpywZBBQAA+I4FHSCVFnJ71Q+jh37d5+57Cr6NIEG2G9d5ZDTFAlBG0uxo= =QCRM > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > ______________ > _________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing > list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinf > o/netbehaviour Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ [email protected] http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
