The coming Glorious Revolution

[Kelley Walker]

At 09:22 AM 4/4/01 -0400, christian11 at mindspring.com wrote:
> >But your orignal statement "no postmodernists = no postmodernism"  seems 
> to denegrate the actuality of postmodern ideas and relegate them to just 
> bad theory. This is not helpful.
>
>What is the "actuality of postmodern ideas"? For whom are they actual?
>
> >The specific political problem that creates the need called the 
> postmodern is the failure of the left and the incapacity of the 
> generation of intellectuals from 60s 70s , now in positions of socal 
> responsiblity, to honestly account for it.
>
>So those who can't understand the recent history of capitalist metropoles 
>invent pomo theory? It makes the whole enterprise sound a bit 
>narcissistic--like a great theoretical ediface has been invented to salve 
>some psychic wound. In those conditions, why would anyone expect such 
>theory to be good or useful?
>
>Christian

nicos mouzelis. if i had time, i'd give you a synopsis. but, basically, i 
got the impression that Erik was getting at the inability of postmodernist 
social and philosophical theory to theorize society/the social because, 
essentially (heh), it has given up any possibility of even conceiving of a 
social/society that can even be theorized.

kelley