[lbo-talk] transparency

[Alan Rudy]

This stuff's gotten so crazy that I caught a snippet (on NPR) of a critique
of the use of "modern" by fashion reality show judges in their efforts to
describe "contemporary" or "21st century pop" style... because "modern" -
for this guy - ought only to be used to describe fashion from the now long
gone high modern era... couldn't stand it, and the pledge drive was coming,
so I had to kill it.
Now, I'm all for being clear about the dynamics, characteristics and
temporality of theoretically meaningful terms in intellectual and political
debate settings but I haven't a clue why anyone not unbelievably
over-concerned with their own importance would go here... again, the death
of irony... I'm so serious I'm a joke... (tho there are folks what think
that about me at times, prolly).
A

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
>  Well, folks I knew twenty years ago said that postmodernism - for all its
>> embrace of irony - was the end of irony...
>>
>
> There's nothing more "postmodern" than reality itself.
>
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