Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

[rainbow]

Post hoc modernism

What are you, some Foucaultian Post Structuralist?

[Rum]

Want a laff? From the Gurdrien (sic - there's a cultural meme about typos in the Guardian in the UK) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... ey-moments

1989: Jeff Koons gets jaded

Jameson also wrote about "the waning of affect" that he claimed characterised postmodern subjectivity. Artists don't cut off their ears these days, more's the pity. As if to prove Jameson's point, in 1989, Jeff Koons put up a poster to advertise his exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum. The billboard image bore the headline Made in Heaven and depicted him having sex with his porn star wife, La Cicciolina. But Koons was hardly in the throes of passion: his affect seemed to have waned to nothing as his blank gaze met ours. Koons's properly ironic po-mo statement about the work was that it would initiate spectators into the "realm of the Sacred Heart of Jesus". Koons had created a Baudrillardian system of simulacra of sexual passion, religious ecstasy, semiotic overload and voguish kitsch, while suggesting that to the blank-eyed stiff who has it all, nothing, not even Viagra, will get him going any more. Such is the postmodern male condition

[laklak]

What does that mean?

[JimC]

What do you mean by "mean"?

[rainbow]

What do you mean by "mean"?

Exactly!

[pErvinalia]

Post-actly!

[pErvinalia]

Does Post-Mortemism Obtusely Exit?

[JimC]

Young people these days!

I remember the good old days, when stuff was simply modern!

[Rum]

I'm editing the second draft of my daughter's essay this evening. I am enjoying it I must say - it is fun when you know this stuff is so much wiffle and you are of an age and experience to see through the bullshit.

Came across this gem:

Nevertheless, many contemporary social scientists acknowledge a debt to deconstructive methods of textual interpretation and to deconstruction’s (or poststructuralism’s) rejection of teleo-logical theories (or "grand narratives") and the concept of a coherent, fixed human subject.

http://what-when-how.com/social-science ... l-science/

You know what it means right, but fuck the fucking fuck off twat face!

[rainbow]

You know what it means right, but fuck the fucking fuck off twat face!

[NineBerry]

Case in point:

An excerpt from the paper on one of the two big security problems in modern processors that made the news yesterday.

The first building block of Meltdown is the execution of transient instructions. Transient instructions basically occur all the time, as the CPU continuously runs ahead of the current instruction to minimize the experienced latency and thus maximize the performance (cf. Section 2.1). Transient instructions introduce an exploitable side channel if their operation depends on a secret value. We focus on addresses that are mapped within the attacker’s process, i.e. , the user-accessible user space addresses as well as the user-inaccessible kernel space addresses. Note that attacks targeting code that is executed within the context (i.e. , address space) of another process are possible [19], but out of scope in this work, since all physical memory (including the memory of other processes) can be read through the kernel address space anyway.

I understand perfectly well what this means although having to concentrate when reading. I suppose that people from outside technical circles will have the same problem reading it as I have with post-modernist texts.

[Tero]

[Forty Two]

[JimC]