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Ben M

Philosophy Now | The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond - 3 views

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technology postmodernism pseudo modernism culture

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  • Ben M on 12 Jun 10
     
    How technology has killed Postmodernism and replaced it with "pseudo-modernism"
jardinejn

Stuart Moulthrop - You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media - Pos... - 0 views

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digital revolution cyber evolution media control

shared by jardinejn on 29 May 10 - No Cached
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  • Stoll excoriates "cyberpunks," virtual vandals who abuse the openness of scientific computing environments. Their unsportsmanlike conduct spoils the information game, necessitating cumbersome restrictions on the free flow of data.
  • Orthodox McLuhanite doctrine holds that "every form, pushed to the limit of its potential, reverses its characteristics" (Laws of Media viii).
  • Who decides what information "belongs" to whom? Stoll's "popular elite" is restricted to academic scientists, a version of "the people" as nomenklatura, those whose need to know is defined by their professional affiliation.
  • The telos of the electronic society-of-text is anarchy in its true sense: local autonomy based on consensus, limited by a relentless disintegration of global authority. Since information is now virtually an equivalent of capital, and since textuality is our most powerful way of shaping information, it follows that Xanadu might indeed change the world.
  • Electronic information, as Stoll sees it, lies in strict analogy with material and private property.
  •   "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system" (Gibson 51).
  • The vision of Xanadu as cyberspatial New Jerusalem is conceivable and perhaps eligible, but by no stretch of the imagination is it inevitable.
  • But it seems equally possible that our engagement with interactive media will follow the path of reaction, not revolution
  • jardinejn on 29 May 10
     
    Pros and Cons of the newly evolving concept of networking information back in the early 90s
  • jardinejn on 29 May 10
     
    Some interesting questions and speculations about potential controls on media from an early 90s perspective
Weiye Loh

Lingua Franca | Is Bad Writing Necessary? - 0 views

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  • Weiye Loh on 24 Oct 10
     
    IS BAD WRITING NECESSARY? George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Literature BY JAMES MILLER
Weiye Loh

- Clarity Is King -- Eric Adler on Postmodernists' Limpid Bursts - New Partis... - 0 views

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Postmodernism Writings

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  • Weiye Loh on 24 Oct 10
     
    Clarity Is King -- Eric Adler on Postmodernists' Limpid Bursts 05.7.2004
Weiye Loh

A `Bad Writer' Bites Back - 0 views

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Academic Writing Postmodernism

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  • The journal, Philosophy and Literature, has offered itself as the arbiter of good prose and accused some of us of bad writing by awarding us "prizes."
  • The targets, however, have been restricted to scholars on the left whose work focuses on topics like sexuality, race, nationalism and the workings of capitalism -- a point the news media ignored. Still, the whole exercise hints at a serious question about the relation of language and politics: why are some of the most trenchant social criticisms often expressed through difficult and demanding language?
  • scholars in the humanities should be able to clarify how their work informs and illuminates everyday life. Equally, however, such scholars are obliged to question common sense, interrogate its tacit presumptions and provoke new ways of looking at a familiar world.
  • Weiye Loh on 24 Oct 10
     
    A `Bad Writer' Bites Back By JUDITH BUTLER
Andrea Ostler

Article about Toni Morrison and Oprah Winfrey - 1 views

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Toni Morrison Oprah postmodernism

shared by Andrea Ostler on 23 May 11 - No Cached
  • Andrea Ostler on 23 May 11
     
    I'm trying to find popular readings of Toni Morrison, particularly black readings. This is a step in the right direction, I hope
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