discussion deconstructed

[Swing Hammerswing]

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>"Neither V. nor CL49 is Postmodernist, both are Modernist."
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>(yawn)
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>You say toMAYto & I say toMAHto ... let's call the whole thing off!


Sure, here in the States PoMo is dead anyway, but what's
happening here, and Doug is opposing it, no one else has the balls I guess, 
is an ideological conflict.  that is  jbor
is now attempting to read not only GR, but V. and CL49 with his very
radical "postmodern" cultural relativism.   as jbor reads GR, Blicero  is 
the most venerated charater in the text.  the only  explaination jbor 
provides for this shocking claim is that Blicero is openly bi-sexual (don't 
touch that one or you will be accused of every horrible crime against 
humanity jbor can think of) and is admired by the other charaters--Enzian, 
Katje,  Thanatz, the 175s-- at moments in the novel because his is a 
bi-sexual in love with Empire.  this is of course a terrible misreading of 
the text.  because Blicero, according to jbor's radical reading shares his 
creator's anti-american views he is justified in some way, in not only 
wanting to break out of the cycle of infection death, but in doing so by 
putting his lover in a rocket and playing Hansel and gretel and so on...  )

So now, I'm simply pointing out that jbor treats
postmodernism not as literary theory or even critical
theory, not as most PoMO critics do, not as Brian McHale does,
(McHale says, V. AND CL49 are not Postmodernist), but as
a poltical and ideological event.

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