[lbo-talk] Sarkozy proposes measuring 'happiness' and 'well-being' to replace the 'cult of the market'

[Alan Rudy]

Postmodernism died when the grad students in the History of Consciousness
Department at UCSC shifted from folks who represented themselves as on
strike by having two pickets where there used to be fifty to folks dedicated
to collaboratively generating an activist constituency engaged in coherent,
strategic and coordinated action... I think that was in 1994.  It was fairly
soon thereafter that the Anthro Dept at Rice imploded and Latour started to
struggle with the fact that, well, after all, maybe, we HAD been modern.

Almost all critiques after that, Sokal included, shot their wad long after
the boat had sailed... to mix a metaphor or two.  Seems to me that
materialist critiques of postmodernism should pay more attention to the
materiality of the phenomenon and less to preconceived notions about its
essential deviltry.  In short, some of us have to get over ourselves.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sandwichman <lumpoflabor at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hurrah, Die Pomo ist alle!
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 22, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> >
> >> Is the pomo bashing machine running out of gas?
> >
> > It got traded in during the Cash for Clunkers program.
>