Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

2017-11-20 Thread gⅼеɳ ☣
I don't know anyone who still claims to be (or think as) a postmodernist. The temporal context implied by "post-" simply indicates a stage we've gone through, not a centralized, coherent way of thinking. The transition referred to by "postmodern" simply indicates that we lost our *assumed*,

Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

2017-11-20 Thread gⅼеɳ ☣
FWIW, I view existentialism as a re-grounding of meaning, onto "what it's like" to be human (or any thinking thing). Postmodernism is simply the realization that meaning *can* be re-grounded at will. It focuses less on fixing/fixating on humans and more on our ability to change what we're

Re: [FRIAM] Postmodernism for Rationalists

2017-11-20 Thread gⅼеɳ ☣
FWIW, I view existentialism as a re-grounding of meaning, onto "what it's like" to be human (or any thinking thing). Postmodernism is simply the realization that meaning *can* be re-grounded at will. It focuses less on fixing/fixating on humans and more on our ability to change what we're