My plan for today is to stay home. I slept better last night than in the last week/2 weeks, but I'm already tired so feel that perhaps more sleep is a great idea
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I can't ever quite seem to hold a working definition for post modernism in my head, despite the fact that people comment regularly on the post modern nature of what I'm saying
As someone who has frequently criticised certain aspects of postmodernism (e.g. that it seems to have become focused on difference in such a way that commonalities are marginalised, which can make alliance-building more difficult), i have to ask: what is it you're saying that people are terming 'postmodern'?
That's part of what makes it hard for me to hold onto the definition - it's never in my head when someone does this, so I'm never quite sure. It happened twice in the last week?
i guess i regard philosophical postmodernism[1] as a rejection of modernism's tendency towards "grand narratives" in which progress (for some definition of 'progress') is inevitable. Instead, it takes a strongly relativist approach in which "the only truth is that there is no single truth", and no truth should be privileged over any other.
What do you think?
[1] As distinct from postmodernism as, say, an art movement.
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As someone who has frequently criticised certain aspects of postmodernism (e.g. that it seems to have become focused on difference in such a way that commonalities are marginalised, which can make alliance-building more difficult), i have to ask: what is it you're saying that people are terming 'postmodern'?
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i guess i regard philosophical postmodernism[1] as a rejection of modernism's tendency towards "grand narratives" in which progress (for some definition of 'progress') is inevitable. Instead, it takes a strongly relativist approach in which "the only truth is that there is no single truth", and no truth should be privileged over any other.
What do you think?
[1] As distinct from postmodernism as, say, an art movement.
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