Post modernism?

[JAE]

I am looking for different definitions of the word post modern. Any
insight would be great.
Thanks,
Jae

[desmith]

One of the best brief works on this subject -- it treats several notions
of deconstruction -- is by Christopher Norris. The title (appropriately
enough) is *Deconstruction*. it should be available in just about any
university library. Cheers!!!

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Derek G. Smith
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 3J2
Email address: des...@ccs.carleton.ca
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[Cameron Laird]

In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960318...@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca>,

JAE <jw...@acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>I am looking for different definitions of the word post modern. Any
>insight would be great.

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Ask in alt.postmodern. As a warm-up, stop in to
<URL:http://www.hotwired.com/wired/4.04/turkle/index.html>.
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[Cara Marshall]

How's this:
Postmodernism includes the dismantling/decentring of Western epistemology
from within, the relativization of the logos. It includes an end to
Platonism, the death of genre, and the emergence of a realm of double
codification and pluralism.

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Cara Marshall
Carleton University

"The possibility of this entity's Being-a-whole is manifestly inconsistent
with the ontological meaning of care, and care is that which forms the
totality of Dasein's structural whole." Wacko Martin Heidegger

Email address: cmar...@chat.carleton.ca
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[Hugh Young]

In article
<Pine.A32.3.91.960318...@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca>,
JAE <jw...@acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>I am looking for different definitions of the word post modern. Any
>insight would be great.

My working definition is:
1. The word "discourse" occurs twice in every paragraph, preferably
once in every sentence.
1a. The word "discourse" doesn't quite mean what it usually does.
2. The word "trajectory" occurs in at least every other paragraph.
2a. The word "trajectory" doesn't mean anything like what it usually
does.
3. Sentences average more than 40 words.
4. Any meaning is very hard to extract.
5. Any meaning, if extracted, is trivial.

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[Bruce Attah]

In article <4ikqek$6...@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>, des...@ccs.carleton.ca
(Derek G. Smith) wrote:

> JAE (jw...@acs.ucalgary.ca) wrote:
> > I am looking for different definitions of the word post modern. Any
> > insight would be great.

> > Thanks,
> > Jae
>
> One of the best brief works on this subject -- it treats several notions
> of deconstruction -- is by Christopher Norris. The title (appropriately
> enough) is *Deconstruction*. it should be available in just about any
> university library. Cheers!!!
>

I'd like to second that. Christopher Norris has written several books on
Postmodernism, as well as an introduction to the work of Derrida. Very
good.

Meanwhile, one could define Postmodernism as a brand of nihilism that
thinks it is new, but has in fact been around since Plato's time (in the
person of some of the more extreme Sophists).

[Susan_W._Almy]

Cara Marshall wrote:
>
> How's this:
> Postmodernism includes the dismantling/decentring of Western epistemology
> from within, the relativization of the logos. It includes an end to
> Platonism, the death of genre, and the emergence of a realm of double
> codification and pluralism.
>
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> Cara Marshall

Great. Now will you define relativization of the logos, your idea
of genre, and double codification?!

[Jay H. Bernstein]

In article <3152DD...@valley.net>, Susan_W._Almy writes:


>Great. Now will you define relativization of the logos, your idea
>of genre, and double codification?!
>

Hey Susan, haven't you figured out from the first definition that it's all
bullshit?

[Lonewulf]

I think post-modernism is a good example of theoretical plagiarism..
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