My definition of choice: [link]
I tried to read that and, to my shame, didn't understand half the terms. I hate running into subjects that make me feel stupid.
Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.
'Bring On The Night'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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Connie Neil - Mar 29, 2010 1:03:27 pm PDT #14330 of 30000
brillig
Shir - Mar 29, 2010 1:08:42 pm PDT #14331 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I was all in favor of post modernism, until I discovered that post-structuralism (and sometime strict structuralism) and phenomenology are often enough to make clear statements (which is exactly the difference, so I've heard, between Lacan and Derrida). And Occam's razor and all, I'd take that. The tendency to go and say "but nooooo, these days reality iz soooo complicated you can't really say that it's true in my snow flakey individual case", is often the case of the Snow Flake which didn't read enough, IME.
Shir - Mar 29, 2010 1:09:51 pm PDT #14332 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I tried to read that and, to my shame, didn't understand half the terms. I hate running into subjects that make me feel stupid.
If you can, try read the first few pages out of "We Have Never Been Modern". It's clear and pretty simple writing.
I can also scan them for you, if you'd like. Hell, I encourage everybody to go and read it.
Connie Neil - Mar 29, 2010 1:11:20 pm PDT #14333 of 30000
brillig
The Cartoon History of the Modern World had a very useful page that gave a rundown of what constituted Modern: education for the masses, democracy, capitalism, et al. When is Post-Modernism supposed to have become a major influence, and what does it entail? Is it the breakdown of the influences that defined Modernism?
-t - Mar 29, 2010 1:20:50 pm PDT #14334 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That looks interesting, Shir. I'm glad to have the recommendation of something to read on the subject.
Vortex - Mar 29, 2010 1:24:03 pm PDT #14335 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
How women from other countries refer to "that time of the month"
I think that this is interesting. My BFF works with Native Americans, and their euphemism is "on the moon", which I like.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 29, 2010 1:38:47 pm PDT #14336 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I'm not an enormous fan of post-modernism, as in the school of philosophy, but I think there's much value in the concept that we're living in an entirely new stage of modernity that may or may not turn out to be something other. Post-modernity is different from post-modernism (although I've nothing against it being called 'late modernism' or similar). Bauman's 'Liquid Modernity' does some fantastic analysis of our current age of rapid change.
Jessica - Mar 29, 2010 1:45:21 pm PDT #14337 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm bored with living in the modern era. Can we skip ahead to the singularity already?
(ION, I seem to be letting my preschooler play with my iPhone. He's totally into the bubble wrap game.)
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 29, 2010 1:47:41 pm PDT #14338 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Stephanie - Mar 29, 2010 1:47:53 pm PDT #14339 of 30000
Trust my rage
there's a bubble wrap game? off to the app store i go...