Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?
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Very clearly explained here:Brian Peacock wrote:If one examines material postdialectic theory, one is faced with a stark and prescient choice: either reject neocapitalist theory or conclude that culture is capable of progressive significance. In a sense, as Barthes suggests, the deployment of the cultural narrative is focused in an attack upon neocapitalist expressionism concerning the stasis, and some would say the absurdity, in which submodernist sexuality is all too often subsumed.
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It exists.
A bit like the mini skirt.
And about as important.
It's fashion.
A bit like the mini skirt.
And about as important.
It's fashion.
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Postmodernism is chick-logic. If you don't already know, then certainly nobody is going to explain to you. And, whatever you think it is, you're wrong. Oh, and don't argue with it or provide solutions, just listen.rainbow wrote:Perhaps it does, but as a reference class problem, it might just be improbable.
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My daughter is doing an MA in ceramics and has popped home this weekend to see me and friends. She has to write an essay on the impact of Post Modernism on ceramic art and craft for some time in January. She is understandably disdainful of the task but realises it is a hoop she has to jump through. She is no essay writer however and as I made my living out of (often) writing bullshit reports for the last few years of my career I am going to more or less write it for her.
I've done a bit of research already and it is a subject that is of course full of poo. Ideas however very welcome!
I've done a bit of research already and it is a subject that is of course full of poo. Ideas however very welcome!
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Well, the words "deconstructing" and "narrative" will get a fair work out, I imagine. And of course, one must mention Derrida, and adopt a tone of sneering contempt for anything rational...
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Don't forget to throw in a good handful of post-s neo-s, and -isms too, as in, "The postcolonial critique of the pervasive neoliberal hegemony encapsulates idealisms of a distinctly objectivist outlook," etc etc...
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And you must insist that ceramics do not really exist, they are merely a social construction...
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Yes. First and foremost the jug exists only in the mind, waiting, incomparably, to be filled with the personal narratives of those whose grasp upon the handle of their own understanding is no firmer than the clay from which it was fashioned.
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From a ceramics exhibition in Adelaide in 2010:
May these descriptions help you if you experience a writers block while composing your daughter's essay. Extra points if you use "paradigm" or "paradigmatic" in a sentence that makes no sense at all, but in a way that whoever marks the assignment will nod emphatically in agreement. If you want to really go over the top in a Sokal manner, you could include a quote or two by Deepak Chopra, with or without attribution. One of my current favourites is: "Attention and intention are the mechanics of manifestation." Oh! "Cosmic consciousness" Whack that in there too.
May these descriptions help you if you experience a writers block while composing your daughter's essay. Extra points if you use "paradigm" or "paradigmatic" in a sentence that makes no sense at all, but in a way that whoever marks the assignment will nod emphatically in agreement. If you want to really go over the top in a Sokal manner, you could include a quote or two by Deepak Chopra, with or without attribution. One of my current favourites is: "Attention and intention are the mechanics of manifestation." Oh! "Cosmic consciousness" Whack that in there too.
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I'm often quite impressed by how well artists can speak total and utter bullshit like they actually believe it. It's quite a skill.
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Actually, those descriptions of the artist's ceramics, although perhaps a little arch, made more sense that most post-modern drivel...
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Thanks guys - keep it up!
I have my work cut out. Googling a definition for post modernism comes up with multiple definitions . There's a theme there but there is no definitive..er..definition. I suppose that will make it easier to make it as as one goes along!
I have my work cut out. Googling a definition for post modernism comes up with multiple definitions . There's a theme there but there is no definitive..er..definition. I suppose that will make it easier to make it as as one goes along!
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That's what the top practitioners do anyway!Rum wrote:Thanks guys - keep it up!
I have my work cut out. Googling a definition for post modernism comes up with multiple definitions . There's a theme there but there is no definitive..er..definition. I suppose that will make it easier to make it as as one goes along!
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