Doug's definition does not do justice to the label, although he is right.
I don't like pomo. Basically pomo is what we call post structuralism.
Social realities do not come in neat categories as in say the
modernization process (traditional versus modern structures) but rather
increasingly there is a recognition that compartmentalization of social
realities (at least intellectually speaking) give way to a fluidity based
on flows of (fill in the blanks). There is a greater degree of
open-endedness, relativeness, and thus "overdetermination."
cheers, a
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor
Comparative International Development
University of Washington
1900 Commerce Street
Tacoma, WA 98402, USA
Phone: (253) 692-4462
Fax : (253) 692-5718
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
On Nov 6, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
What's "post-modernism"?
How in the hell should I know. I seldom if ever use the term. Ask
Postone.
But you just did, by quoting him.
For the purposes of PEN-L, "post-modernism" is what biologists call a
wastebasket taxon - the category you throw all the stuff you don't
know how to classify into. In the PEN-L case, it's stuff people don't
like, but haven't read.
Doug
