Cyber Yugoslavia

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Thu Sep 9 16:30:39 PDT 1999


Elena:
>Pathetic it may be, but it is not the Deridaean type of clean,
>well-lighted place.

Exactly. In fact, I am glad to find this website, and I am happy that a good number of people are feeling nostalgic about the socialist Yugoslavia (both what it was and, more importantly, _what it could have been_). My irony is targeted on postmodern philosophers, not on those who put up the website. One annoying tendency in this philosophy is to abstract from real conditions of homelessness, exile, political repression, marginalization, deprivation, etc. and then to put forward the concept of "homelessness" as if it were an existentialist predicament of the "human conditions." In my view, this rhetoric of postmodernism obscures real sufferings.

Yoshie



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