news: PoMo cries "Uncle"

[pynchonoid]

Modernism a beneficiary of war in Iraq
Postmodernism succumbs to a friendly takeover
 
Gerald Owen
National Post


Saturday, August 02, 2003

One surprising consequence of the war in Iraq is the
surrender of postmodernism to a victorious modernism.
This has been largely overlooked in North America.

In reaction to the U.S. intervention in Iraq, Jacques
Derrida, a famous postmodernist, signed on as
co-author of an article drafted by the German
philosopher Jürgen Habermas, previously an opponent of
his, in an unmistakable endorsement of modernist
Enlightenment principles. Derrida, the apostle of
deconstructionism, is now advocating some decidedly
constructive and Eurocentric activism. [...] 


<http://www.nationalpost.com/review/story.html?id=37CB6B04-A177-4E49-8E03-8DBD2135C579>

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