Alan Rudy wrote:
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> As always, different folks mean different things by post-modern. I didn't
> mean the world of desituated deconstruction or free-floating signifiers,
> less postmodernism - which I always read as self-aggrandizing ideology
Two points.
First, I don't knmow what you are talking about here (you are trying to put too much into a single sentence). Whose "self-aggrandizing ideology? What do you mean by ideology?
Secondly, we are now discussing the term post-modernism and its hundred variations instead of whatever it was you wanted to discuss in the first place. IAnd this deflection from the subject matter ALWAYS follows introductin of the term "post-modernism," unless a particular conceptionof it is THE topic under discussion.
Carrol