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

[Bob and Carla <bb333@earthlink.net>]

I think that this conclusion is pointing more towards post-structural  
theory and criticism.....which as much followed postmodernism (re- 
inventing history, etc.)

Bob


On Nov 19, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Katharine Thayer wrote:

> 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