Check out The Pomo Group

[jonathan schultz]

It is a shame that postmodernism's ironic end will be
a) that it will not end
-and/as a result of/ because-
b) the battering it recieves from modernist's misuse of it.

Nihil Verum.  Omnium licet.  Au revoir.

Jonathan Schultz

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> From: David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
> To: pmackin at clark.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: RE: Check out The Pomo Group
> Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 2:15 PM
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Paul Mackin
> >
> >David Morris wrote:
> >
> > > > > Times Square IS Las Vegas, for God's sake!  
> >Theatricality/Advertizing is
> > > > > it's essence.  Hardly the place to look for today's predominant
> > > > > architectural zeigheist.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Isn't that what everybody wants in their new corporate headquarters 
> >campus
> > > >in the suburbs also.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Even though architects are hirelings, working for the Yankee dollar, 
> >those
> > > promoting the "cutting edge" of theory don't give a damn about what
> > > "everybody wants."  Just ask Frank Lloyd Wright.
> >
> >Can this "cutting edge" be tailored to litcrit in some way that goes
> >beyond tired out old pomo--my original question actually?
> >
> >
> I know more about the current architecture than I do the current litcrit 
> (nil).  In architecture there are no big identifiable movements, just 
> numerous "trends."  It could be that we are still in an overidingly PoMo 
> phase, but as a "cause" it is out of favor.  The present "trends" are
mostly 
> in reaction to what have been seen as the failures of PoMo.  I could
begin 
> to enumerate what I see as some of these failures & reactions, which may 
> have their parallel in literature, but then my neck would be way too far
out 
> of my shell.
> 
> I'd say we are in a Po-PoMo time, but what does that mean?
> 
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