Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 16:26:58 -0800 Subject: Re: The Widening Gyre Ed Atkeson wrote: > ...there is a splintering of the > social tree when you remove shared assumptions. It's not > just freedom > and self-directed, locally-valued thinking you get, but > there's also a > devastating uneasiness to deal with. A lostness. > Enormous stress. This sounds more like Baudrillard to me that Lyotard. Listen to Lyotard: That is what the postmodern world is all about. Most people have lost their nostaliga for the lost narrative. It in no way follows that they are reduced to barbarity. What saves them from it is their knowledge that legitimation can only spring from their own linguistic pracice and communicational interaction [or paralogy]. (Lyotard, PMC, p.41] I think an argument can be made that Lyotard is a visionary postmodern as opposed to the nostalgic postmodernism of people like Baudrillard. Myself, I identify with this visionary sense of postmodernity. When the databases are generally available and we can think things through together in our paralogy, it is a better world, a world not possible before we became disillusioned with the marketed metanarratives that provided us, once-upon-a-time, with our models of truth. ..Lois Shawver
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