PostModernism

Am I product of the things I buy or a fictional character - think 19th century Geisha with Turkish hairdo - walking through Eurodisney? (aka retro answerz)

Bloody italics. Worse than quotation marks.

That's the thead where i had a fight with sterling! About the size of terry eagleton's ass.

It's an exceptionally ill-defined term, helenF, yoking heterogenous stuff by violence together. Use Other Labels.

Oh HELL I should search and find thread first. Bah! Off to reminisce about days of yonder. ;-)

deconstruct all lbaels instead, recognize the construction of your (mine/ours?) own text...power on babbeeeee

Geez, people. People's hatred of PoMo is funny sometimes. Recent comments that I've read recently (especially Zorn's introduction to the ARCANA book), not the wind out of the relevance of the ole PoMo ideal. I think it stems from the fact that we, as artisans and cultural critics and as HUMANS, want to be about to carve out our niche for ourselves, to personalize it and have it as an extension of ourselves. Postmoderism doesn't allow that, in it's basis of pastiche and media manipulation and gross hyper-awareness of historical perspective. It becomes a culture of pre-destined irony, of constant self-reflection, blah blah. Most folk would rather say "I'm a Dadaist!" and throw a dead chicken at a wall of old sneakers. It gives you identity, I suppose. But I don't know, when I first started reading about PoMo, I thought it was dandy. It made sense.

Q: How did the postmodernist dog get a smashed-up face?
A: Chasing parked cars.

Q: What's the difference between a postmodernist and a grape?
A: They're both purple except for the postmodernist.

Q: Why did the postmodernist freeze to death?
A: He went to the drive-in to see Closed for Winter.

Q: What did Tarzan say when he saw the postmodernists coming over the hill?

A: "Here come the postmodernists."

Q: What did Jane say when she saw the postmodernists coming over the hill?
A: "Here come the grapes." (She was color-blind.)

--Well, I'm trying to make my hatred of postmodernism funny.--