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felis_ultharus) wrote2005-09-14 08:27 pm
felis_ultharus) wrote2005-09-14 08:27 pm
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So we've moved on to another postmodernist, Linda Hutcheon. She's the postmodernists postmodernists recommend to their sceptics, because she's saner, has some access to reality, and can carry on a discussion for some time before slipping into jargon.
So she's sort of the Locutus of postmodernism, since we apparently like borg metaphors around here :)
I'm trying to give her a fair chance. But she's already maligned my own theoretical approach about 6 times, and shown she doesn't understand it in the least, and I'm less than 5% through her book. And while she's more conscious, and more aware of reality, she's clearly too attached to many of the cynical ideas at the core of postmodernism that I just can't agree with.
It seems I'm not the only one in class. There's a guy in our course who's in the same "liberal humanist/thematicist" tradition I am, and we echo a lot of each other's points. I've already made him a convert of John Ralston Saul :)
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foi_nefaste? He's a former McGiller. He left because of Lecher.
One of his teachers -- the other Canadian Lit person at McGill -- had a great analogy for explaining Modernism and Postmodernism: "Modernism wanted to burn down the House of Art and Culture. Postmodernism is playing with the charred bits that are left" :)
Other than that, I'm working around the clock these days for the place that can't afford to hire me permanently. I'm working on call. For a guy who's been laid off, I seem to be clocking in more hours than when I was there officially :/
So she's sort of the Locutus of postmodernism, since we apparently like borg metaphors around here :)
I'm trying to give her a fair chance. But she's already maligned my own theoretical approach about 6 times, and shown she doesn't understand it in the least, and I'm less than 5% through her book. And while she's more conscious, and more aware of reality, she's clearly too attached to many of the cynical ideas at the core of postmodernism that I just can't agree with.
It seems I'm not the only one in class. There's a guy in our course who's in the same "liberal humanist/thematicist" tradition I am, and we echo a lot of each other's points. I've already made him a convert of John Ralston Saul :)
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foi_nefaste? He's a former McGiller. He left because of Lecher.One of his teachers -- the other Canadian Lit person at McGill -- had a great analogy for explaining Modernism and Postmodernism: "Modernism wanted to burn down the House of Art and Culture. Postmodernism is playing with the charred bits that are left" :)
Other than that, I'm working around the clock these days for the place that can't afford to hire me permanently. I'm working on call. For a guy who's been laid off, I seem to be clocking in more hours than when I was there officially :/
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*squee!*
Tell him I know, approve, agree, and all the rest of it. It must be SO nice to be taking a class with a reasonable person who isn't just interested in explaining how there are no texts... :D
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