From: "mal avita" <malavita-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: a puddle of Irony
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 06:21:06 PST


>...if everything is pomo
>if culture is pomo
>'one and the same'

>what utility does the term have ?

The term postmodern seems rooted in eighties philosophical writing...an 
awful lot has gone on since then, although we may not have a brand name 
to identify it with yet (and then sell it like soap).


>why bother using it ?

On this list, the use of this term has created a sort of mantra, that 
through repetitiion is beginning to lose any meaning it may have had. 
Often, the word postmodern is used to designate the lack of a cohesive 
cultural standard...that in itself is not a bad thing, but the idea is 
sometimes used to justify the reinvention of past artistic tendencies 
(out of nostalgia), which tends to be oppositional to the concept of 
avant-garde.

>it seems that if it doesn't denote something 
>we cd potentially distinguish
>within a broader realm 'culture' lets say
>then it serves no purpose
>
>which wdn't bother me particularly
>
>thoughts ?

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