You say PoMo; I say trade for profit

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Mittelwerk, mon autre, don't be writin' things about holy reified beans
 if you're also gonna include sentences such as:

>Admittedly, postmodern theory is much more of a pleasing, self-referential
>wankfest than sitting down and actually digesting the philosophy of
>consciousness. 

Since the sin of reification spreads its cloak of duplicitous conceptualization
 over that sentence big time!  I agree when you say *don't fear the concept, Jacques*
 but you seem to reduce it all to a simplistic false dichotomy that traps your thoughts
 in a klein bottle of your own devise.

john m

P.S.  I am no philosopher, and I wouldn't pretend to speak for any of the ones we've been 
discussing, but to my eye postmodernism does not require the death of metaphysics, 
though perhaps it asks us to shut up about it, or to talk about it differently.