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.
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