Postmodernism

[Evan Abla]

Thank you Heikki, you are exactly right.


evan


Evan M. Abla
eabla at nazarene.org

"He uttered a triumphant cry: It is accomplished!
And it was as though he had said: Everything has begun."
                                                --Nikos Kazantzakis

>>> Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> 05/19/00 07:30AM >>>
On Fri, 19 May 2000 KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> I agree with Terrance that the times of postmodernism and deconstructivsm 
are 
> over. The reason for this is that "anything goes" has led us into the
chaos 
> of the world economy of today. We are not only a Western world but a
world 
> full of Ruandas, Burundis, Sierra Leones and Yugoslavias. 

It is hard to see what "anything goes" and/or "postmodernconditionalism" 
could possible have in common with deconstruction. (For Derrida's strong
NO to "anything goes", see "Afterword", _Limited Inc__. For interesting,
often polemical essays  on _Specters of Marx_ by Toni Negri et al + JD's 
reply, see _Ghostly Demarcations_ ed. by the great late Michael Sprinker. 
For postcolonial issues and deconstruction, see anything by Pheng Cheah,
e.g. "Spectral Nationality" in one of the 1999 numbers of _Boundary 2"_.  
Etc.)

Heikki