Re: Defining "post-modernism" -- WAS--- First define "post-modern"photography, dammit

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

On Nov 18, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Don Sweet wrote:
> Isn't it more plausible that the rise of PM ideas has directly  
> contributed
> to the recent success of war rhetoric ......

I think you're onto something here.  Several years ago I read a well- 
written and well-thought book by a Bosnian academic who had survived  
the siege of Sarajevo and argued rather persuasively  that   
postmodern thought and literature was in large part responsible for  
the Bosnian war.

PM education, I believe, also largely responsible for the inability  
of many on this list to consider issues from a scientific viewpoint,  
leading to a tendency to misperceive differing observation as   
personal attack, or to accept anecdote, or even entirely  
unsubstantiated opinion,  as proof.    (To bring this back somewhat  
in range of topic.)
kt