Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:37:57 -0500
From: "Shawn P. Wilbur" <swilbur-AT-libertatia-labs.org>
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Re: Griffin: "Redefining the Divine" (Center for a Postmodern Society)



Larry Mintz wrote:

>   Shawn stated: 
> You can, apparently, redefine "postmodernism" to mean *process philosophy*,
> as Griffin has been doing in his "positive postmodernism" campaign. I like
> Whitehead, and think there's a good deal left to begleaned from his thought,
> but Griffin seems to be clouding the already cloudy issue of "the 
> postmodern"
>  
> I was refering more to the Subject header than the article itself
> Larry


Sure, but while we were quibbling... ;)

In any event, since Jason has posted a couple of articles from the 
process-postmodernists, it seems worth noting that their "postmodernism" 
is completely different, and sometimes explicitly opposed, to 
poststructuralism and most of the other "postmodernisms" we generally 
talk about here. There are potential points of contact, including Todd 
May's work on moral theory (which has some of the same "positive" and
"corrective" aim) and the various poststructuralist appropriations of 
Bergson, but also very major differences in method, aims, politics, etc.

-shawn