> Everything that You want to criticize or praise, You may call > "postmodernist". Those involved get their message ;o) Peeter ... it's a very "Pythonesque" "Postmodernism, like modernism, follows most of these same ideas, rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasizing pastiche, parody, bricolage, irony, and playfulness. Postmodern art (and thought) favors reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity (especially in narrative structures), ambiguity, simultaneity, and an emphasis on the destructured, decentered, dehumanized subject." http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html Well, note in the above quote "decentered" - yur gallery submission fails this test by being so central ;o) > Technology and mechanics haven't saved the world; They have just given us better way to destroy it ... > nobody believes in engineering and constructive human mind; instead of > strong concrete states there is one big global village; The irony is (in suburban environs at least) that many people now communicate daily with others they have never met the other side of the world ... but never even speak to thier next door neighbors ;o) > Highly intellectual mind is little by little > exchanging the more "limited" simple constructive one. The purpose of thinking is too avoid work - the ultimate in "working sharper not harder" is not to work. The denegration of academia - knowlege of ancient Greek history being replaced by the cult of modern celebrity - if you can't think harder, just don't think ... Consumers are the cornerstone of a capitalist society - if they don't ask questions and just buy new - they are better consumers. In technology, Modernism was new and useful: Postmodenism is progress for it's own sake ... > hasselblads suck with ultrasonic speeds and one has to purchase a new > digital wonder twice in a week, to be updated and in the business ;o) Err, exactly ... don't ask why you buy or the capitalist bubble bursts !!! > Cheer up -- philosophy nowadays is more than simple ;o) Indeed! How about a serious work: A Cartoon Epistemology http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/cartoonepist/cartoonepist.html All the best . Bob (Ps ... While Qkano could have been my real name - somehow people in the West can't pronounce it)
