At least in the US, pomo was something else; I taught a course in it at University of Texas @ Dallas aroundd 1985 and developed, then published, a 'postmodern checklist' at http://www.alansondheim.org/postmode.txt - most of this in retrospect seems fairly accurate now.
- Alan On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Rob Myers wrote: > On 19/06/11 12:14, Simon Biggs wrote: >> What do you think post-modernism is? > > "You're both right." > > Postmodernism was the abandoning of grand narratives and the embrace of > relativity. > > That abandoning and embrace both involved and required a retreat from > the social and economic reality of its practitioners privileged position > within society and the global economy. > > This isn't to say that there wasn't more intellectual good in > Postmodernism than I would ever have admitted at the time, or that its > critics don't have their own socioeconomic situation that isn't also > open to critique... > > - Rob. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rb.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
