I enjoyed Qkano's post, but somehow never got the point. Enlighten me, someone? S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Qkano" <wildimages@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 2:41 AM Subject: Re: 20 NOV 04 - Peeter's postmodernism ... > > 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) > >
