IsmDeModConstructionPost

[Terrance]

Postmodernism, we can't agree on what it is, but it seems to
be, oh let me say, I mean play that it is, a number of
concurrent and parallel movements in various disciplines,
but because it has many forms and shapes, it also has many
meanings and because it advocates the importance of finding
a new way of thinking- - a "new paradigm," and because this
new paradigms is not a mere shift in the orientation of
thought, but rather a radical transformation of the
framework with which we
cognitively operate, and since none of us has any idea how
it is that we cognitively operate, we can only play. 

Now we can't read V. anymore, not like we read Dickens for
sure, because who or what is is going to decide what we are
reading, not just the meaning of what is meant, the meaning
of the text, but in what and in where we should search for
meaning? Between the covers?  The new paradigm says no, not
in the book, why with all these readers shifting about there
is simply no room between the covers for authorial intent,
roll over, and they all rolled over and the author fell out.
And they all rolled over and what fell out? Why the original
social setting, the original audience, and the book, and
they all rolled over to make room for the interpreter. Of
what you ask? Don't be such a Romantic!
Here we go round the Hegelian gyre, the Hegelian gyre, at
Zero OH clock in the morning, here we go...and the past is
ontologically alien to the postmodern reader, her we go and
every age understands the text, the text of the past and the
past of the text differently. Dizzy? Oh but our own cultural
entities have genuine immediacy for us, so we can determine
some immediate meaning whirling and fleeting. And how could
anyone not read the Sophists today? Why those Greeks, they
had nothing to say, nothing, just wave the finger as you
don't even step into the same river once.