The Death of PostModernism

[Ghetta Life]

>From: ricardo tinoco <golganooza at yahoo.com.br>
>
>Now, concerning PostModernism: considering that it is the first movement 
>which really isn´t a movement for it's frontier's are less than defined, 
>that it's the first (on the footsteps of St. Joyce et al.) that fuses, not 
>to mention aspects that could be regarded by Them as exterior to it, such 
>oposing fields of literature as romanticism, classicism and realism, that 
>continually escapes (and even regains) old molds, one might conclude than 
>rather than being a movement, PostModernism is more like a microcosmus, or 
>a mirror, of Literature (or Life) itself, thus being the first "movement" 
>that can actually rejoice with it's own "Death". And laugh at the arses 
>posing as prophets, of course.

No movement's frontiers are ever cleanly defined, thank God.  Any such 
movement would need to be quickly killed for the sake of liberation from it 
(as that article implies is why postmodernism id dying - doctinaire 2nd 
generation academics - but in my mind that's only a symptom, not a cause).  
Also, the inclusion of aspects "regarded by Them as exterior to it, such 
oposing fields of literature as romanticism, classicism and realism" might 
otherwise be known as "ecclecticism," which is by no means exclusive to 
Postmodernism.  And please understand that I'm not solely talking about 
literature, which is why I mentioned my specialty - architecture.  And I 
think its also important to point out that we're also blurring the 
distinction between the *literature* and the *theory.*  I don't really care 
about the theory.  I'm more interested in the art itself.  THAT"S what a 
movements all about, isn't it?

Ghetta

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