From david turgeon Sent Thu, Aug 5th 1999, 19:24
From david turgeon Sent Thu, Aug 5th 1999, 19:24
> Actually the point is interesting. If the tenant of Post-modernism is, that > at its very core, a movement that isnt a movement. An idea where any thing, > any idea, is valid (be it baroque architecture with killer robots instead of > finely crafted saints in the wood walls, or big toilets made out of plastic > and filled with styrofoam). validity is one thing, but will people use them? like them? i personally like my toilet without styrofoam. > I Sorta see the pendulum swinging back really > quite far the other way. To some sort of uber-modernism. Something were > rules are created and very stricly adhered to. Like if your doing an Electro > track you have to use very specific sounds and a very recognizable beat. people do that, & did that since the inception of techno. people did that since the beginnings of religion & organized life. should that really be defined as modernism, be it uber? > Or we'll all just keep doing whatever the hell we so desire and > postmodernism will never die. that doesn't seem to be the direction we're headed to. or maybe by metamodernism you meant that some would follow modernist ways & some postmodernist ones, but all the while _knowing_ that one isn't better than the other & that both have good & bad sides. so the next step would be knowing that you're knowing, & that whether you know or not doesn't make a difference? how far can we go with that? -- david