Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:44:13 -0800 From: William Dennehy <bix1-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: Re: A possible "sellout"? nik wrote: > > >Gosh now we're getting all jokey - very post-modern. "Is the X-files the > >ultimate representation of the post-modern condition? Discuss" > > > >Keep it up, guys. At least this way it doesn't take stupid me 30 mins to > >understand each posting!!:) > > > >Becky > > > i think the x-files would be more along the lines of hyper-modern. it seems > to take the suspicion and "search for the truth" mentality of the modernist > to an extreme divorced from the modernist's "reality". The suspicion is so > extreme that it undermines the idea of truth and reality - in the x-files, > the truth is always somewhere else, it is never present. the modernist > would have (does?) seen truth as the product of rational investigation, but > the x-files undermines this search by suspecting all forms of investigation > (why is mulder almost always right, despite all of scully's scientific > evidence?), and all of the results of these investigations. if every method > is suspect, and every answer a lie, the extistence of a truth and a real is > called into question. and in this way, the modernist methodology is shown > up as suspect, and is torn appart by it's own workings. > > nik. How about taking it for what it is??? A trashy, poorly acted science fiction soap opera....
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