That doesn't mean I don't find some PoMo stuff personally useful, but I've found I enjoy it more aesthetically (like poetry or a novel) than as a tool for social analysis, if that makes sense. Like Chomsky said about Foucault (who was apparently the PoMo dude Chomsky respected most) "you have to dig." Some authors you have to dig more than others. There's some funny, amusing, ironic stuff, here and there, like Baudrillard pointing out that laid off French steelworkers were re-hired at EuroDisney to play Snow White's Seven Dwarves, etc. Har har. But reading a lot of PoMo is just a slog.
-B.
C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> True, because it's so over. But Berube was once a
devotee. (Some years ago I listened to his ardent
defense of Pomo in a debate with Alan Sokal.) Its
political stance was a cloudy mix of Democratic party
left-liberalism and I.P., the source of the most
choleric attacks on Chomsky's anarchism since Vietnam
days. --CGE