modernism

[Monte Davis]

> I think we are 
> now entering into a Neo-modern period

I take your (excellent) points, but please tell me you at least smiled as
you wrote this. (Which would have no bearing on its merits as a prediction
of what people will be calling the Next Big Thing).

Of course I *do* believe there was some internal coherence, some correlation
across arts and across nations, in what is called Modernism. I just find it
a healthy mental exercise to ask once in a while: what if the designator
were one of Vonnegut's granfalloons? How many of our assignments of artists
and works to epochs and eras and periods are optical illusions, canals on
Mars, Bermuda triangles, born of our inability to grapple with big,
many-dimensional data clouds as "just one damn thing after another"?

So, poised in doubt and contradiction and amibiguity, I'm a thoroughly
modern Modernist.  And since that's an ironic, self-referential and
thoroughly "meta" perspective drawing attention to the possibility of *no*
fixed point outside this maze of words, I'm also post- as post- can be.

And Pugnax says it looks good on me.