Student Reqest'g Suggestion

[Global Culture]

Hello, all.

Am new to pomo, have just started to study it as a college freshman.

I have been assigned a research paper and need some "entry level"
suggestions. No literary morasses to wade through, please (tried to read
Derrida and Baudrillard and nearly died; I would like to, however get more
experience in the field to "graduate" to those texts). Basically this needs
to be a "critical" text.

I must also pick an "aesthetic" pomo-themed text, film, song, etc. to
compare with the first text.

Any suggestions?

- M2M

[James Whitehead]

In article <B521041D.1698E%webm...@globalcultureclub.com>, Global
Culture <webm...@globalcultureclub.com> writes

We had some discussion on this about the "For Beginners Books" which
were not seen favourably by some in the NG - which I thought a pity as
if anything should be reduced to fast-food burger king wendy burgers its
post modernism. The UK published post-modernism for beginners - Icon
Books Ltd has IMO a good stab at Art and Architecture and some attempt
at music and science - you face problems of deliberate obscurism - and
attempts to define the indefinable. Add to this yourself being situated
within post-modernism - the problem of seeing the wood for the trees
arises. One thought - your paper could consist of just URLs. (probably
been done - but try doing it ironically)

--
James Whitehead

[Tom Asquith]

Yea, verily, on Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:17:35 +0100 , James Whitehead
witnesseth the following to alt.postmodern:

>In article <B521041D.1698E%webm...@globalcultureclub.com>, Global
>Culture <webm...@globalcultureclub.com> writes

>We had some discussion on this about the "For Beginners Books" which

>were not seen favourably by some in the NG - which I thought a pity as
>if anything should be reduced to fast-food burger king wendy burgers its
>post modernism. The UK published post-modernism for beginners - Icon
>Books Ltd has IMO a good stab at Art and Architecture and some attempt
>at music and science - you face problems of deliberate obscurism - and
>attempts to define the indefinable. Add to this yourself being situated
>within post-modernism - the problem of seeing the wood for the trees
>arises. One thought - your paper could consist of just URLs. (probably
>been done - but try doing it ironically)

Note: ICON Books is now affiliated with the Penguin Books conglomerate
-- and the series has, for the most part, been renamed from "...for
Beginners" to "Introducing...". In addition to "Introducing
Postmodernism", there are also books in the series dealing with
Baudrillard, Foucault, Semiology and Lacan. (Hmmm...I'm sad to see that
the "for Beginners" books have been bashed of late. About a year ago,
they were given more positive reviews -- and personally, I have found
them a good starting place for most novices.)

(As for a postmodern approaches to papers, one student in one of my
classes decided to try a comic book -- neat idea. Another interesting
idea one student has tried was presenting most of the paper in
footnotes. I would suggest though that the original poster should
consider the professor's personal tastes before starting. In other
words, do some background reading.)

Cheers,
Tom Asquith,
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[James Whitehead]

In article <3904f73e...@news.cwk.imag.net>, Tom Asquith
<mosquito...@canada.com> writes

* 1.

> I would suggest though that the original poster should
>consider the professor's personal tastes before starting. In other
>words, do some background reading.)
>
>
>
>Cheers,
>Tom Asquith,
>tasquith-at-hotmail-dot-com
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*1. I seem to remember someone did similar in Studio International in
the 70s - when this was a modernist Journal.
--
James Whitehead