Postmodernism

[Kevin Won]

Im not sure how valid the split is, but there is a differance between PostMODERN and PostSTRUCTRUAL threads of thought--and just about anything can be attributable to PostModern--its a much looser goose (i.e. Bauldrillard compared to Derrida).  

Postmodern "stuff" such as Pynchon,  Bauldrillard, Delillo, Lyotard, etc. is much more succeptable to open readings than PostStructuralist "stuff".  Not that it is any less valid, it is just much harder to nail down, and thus, open to blatent misreadings (if that is even possible to define without some reference to an outside presence). 

Again, what I truly love about the PM/PS stance (again I'm left to use a verb that connotes structure), is its humility.  I mean, what an awseome thing for Derrida to happily laugh himself away (oh isn't all so funny!) when he states that the logical conclusion to deconstruction is its own unraveling.  And Nietzsche--what a GAS!  "Why I am so wise", "why I write such excellent books". Was he mad?  was he a prophet?  He lived his life as a reflection of his thought.  We are such funny truth-creating creatures.  And we take it all so seriously!

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kevin

>>> <KXX4493553 at aol.com> 05/22 1:00 PM >>>
In einer eMail vom 22.05.00 19:01:43 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
mitchell.coffey at baesystems.com: 

<< 
 Also, earthquakes.  And that hole-thing in the ozone layer.  
 Furthermore, I suspect, though it's yet to be confirmed, that 
 postmodernism and deconstructionism split the continents, and
 set  Australia alone, isolate, in the South Pacific. >>
Come to Germany, here are no earthquakes. Sometimes here are only guys who 
call themselves Hitler or something like that - take it easy. 
But let us be serious: do you really want to discuss at such al level? I 
never said that postmodernism is "responsible" for all the massacres all 
around the world; this would be indeed ridiculous. But I said that 
postmodernism as a phaenomenon of the "ideological superstructure" (as a 
Marxist would say) prepared a thinking and a "life-style" that after the 
brekdown of the socialist states led us to the hegemony of neoliberalism and 
"deregulation". "The market" sells everything... the similiarities between 
postmodernism and neoliberalism are so evident that I think also Milton 
Friedman  would agree with postmodern standpoints if he would be really 
interested in.
Derrida is a different case; I  think that me made several corrections in his 
work towards ethical standpoints, for example he refers to the moral 
philosophy of Levinas; see also his last interview which is published in the 
last edition of "Lettre International" where he speaks about the "forgiving" 
of war crimes and the Holocaust; very interesting to read.
But I'll speak about that later when I'll have more time than now.
Do you know PoMo-Slogan?
"There's no better difference than in-difference..."
kwp