for - adjacency - modernism - postmodernism - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt

adjacency - modernism - postmodernism - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt - it comes back to the misunderstanding between the deep intertwingledness between - the individual and the collective, - the self and the other - a pith interpretation of the individual is that it is the INDIVISIBILITY of the DUAL (Gyuri Lajos)

for - adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness

adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness - This is the warning that Buddhist teachers have warned about to their students, who have an incomplete "understanding" of emptiness - If nothing is solid or real, and there is no right or wrong, then the student can mistakenly fall into nilhism and do harm - If the concept of harm is construed as part of dualism but dualism is the illusion to be penetrated, then again there is the danger of falling into post-truth where nothing matters and anarchy reins. - In Buddhist philosophy, the concept of "appearance-emptiness" shows that there is still some reality, just not what we originally thought

for - key insight - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - quote - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - Annick de Witt - observation - adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts

adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts - observation - also we are seeing the shadow side of postmodernism in the Trump era where "alternative facts" have become dangerously fashionable - obviously the complete denial of an objective reality is not tenable while the complete denial of constructed reality is also no tenable - what we need is an integration, as Annick contends

for - adjacency - progressives - postmodernism

for - adjacency - postmodernism - progressive

Comment by danallosso: In another sense, though, it makes the reader's process more visible so that the reader no longer needs to trespass into the author's territory. I've always been dissatisfied with the lit-crit position that the author must be completely decentered and her contribution minimized to make room for the reader. THIS seems to create a real space for the reader, and in so doing maybe it also allows the author to reclaim some of her space.

for - key insight - polycrisis - solving - postmodernism alone if insufficient

definition - postmodernism - worldview that champions decentralization, diversity, leaderless coalitions, horizontal networks, etc., etc. author: John Bunzl

claim - post modernism alone is no match for the dynamics of hierarchical Destructive Global Capitalism (DGC) - unity of required amongst the fragmented postmodern movements

—Louis Menand

Bauhaus

The Tower of Babel

When I first read this manifesto, I had immediate associations with the Tower of Babel. The cathedral project of global neoliberal capitalism began as a socialist utopian project in the Weimar Republic as Germany’s first experiment in democracy. The democratic experiment failed when the Nazis shut down the Bauhaus in 1933.

The experiment continued in the United States of America as the Bauhaus diaspora spread the ideas of modernism to the art, design and architecture academies around the world.

The World Trade Center in New York City embodied the vision of modern architecture that Walter Gropius had been exploring at the Bauhaus, defining the trinity of building materials of the modern world: steel, glass, and concrete.

When the twin towers collapsed on 9/11, the modernism movement came to an abrupt end. Ever since, we have been living in a distinctly postmodern world.

Libertarian ideas being picked up in the 1970s.in analogy with

Frankfurt School in 1920s Germany and French postmodernist thinkers of the 1960s and 70s put into "Just America"

A characteristic of Post-Modernism . . .

By definition PoMo

Pomo!

Postmodernism wnats to make new without claiming it's new -- since everything has been done before, but also we can violate the rules of the past.

I'm not really satisfied using the term "critical theory" either, given that it could include works that aren't really "PoMo" (eg, Marxism or historical materialism). I'd use "post-structuralism", but I don't think that many folks know what it means and it's not totally accurate either. So I decided to just leave it as "critical theory" as in the original rant.

In another sense, though, it makes the reader's process more visible so that the reader no longer needs to trespass into the author's territory. I've always been dissatisfied with the lit-crit position that the author must be completely decentered and her contribution minimized to make room for the reader. THIS seems to create a real space for the reader, and in so doing maybe it also allows the author to reclaim some of her space.

This strikes me as a key distinction between postmodernism and posthumanism. Postmodernism can be thought of as post-utopian, while posthumanism works toward an affirmative, generative future. I don't know if posthumanism is utopian, per se, but it doesn't seem to be dystopic in the way that postmodernism often is.

Society itself is post-human, but computers and mechanical technologies just make it increasingly apparent. I would make a similar argument for our understanding of postmodernism as well.

Somewhat unexpected nod to critiques of essentialism. Makes sense in context.