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Twilight of Post-Modernism
Swedish social sciences zine Axess just published a thematic issue about the twilight of post-modernism.
Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
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Category: Skepticism
Posted on: June 5, 2007 4:32 AM, by Martin R
Swedish social sciences zine Axess just published a thematic issue about the twilight of post-modernism and the lingering pockets of anything-goes relativism that it's leaving behind. Essays by Johan Lundberg, Ophelia Benson & Jeremy Stangroom, Richard Wolin and Christofer Edling. Currently only in Swedish, but English translations will be on-line shortly.
On the Swedish scale, Axess is a moderate conservative mag. On the US scale, it's somewhere just left of Bill Clinton.
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Comments
Post-modernism....
....i think it's something some people have in their genes. They have a different structure of thinking and are more inclined to use these...
...complex expressions. No doubt, a talent.
What i lack in their texts, though, is proof, arguing, exemplifying and reference.
All i've read so far is zillions of statements.
Posted by: Z | June 5, 2007 9:31 AM
I wish I could just see pomos as historically contingent social constructions. Unfortunately, being a rationalist, I have to accept that they do in fact exist.
Posted by: Martin R | June 5, 2007 9:36 AM
But happily, pomos are able to see themselves as historically contingent social constructions, which turn out not to exist whenever rationalists point them out.
Posted by: Ophelia Benson | June 5, 2007 12:12 PM
I am very offended by their disrespect for my individually constructed point of view where they do in fact exist all the time. Fascists! Micro-fascists!
Posted by: Martin R | June 5, 2007 12:39 PM
Macro-micro-fascists! Splitters!
Posted by: Ophelia Benson | June 5, 2007 1:15 PM
Ophelia, I want you to call me Loretta and I want to bear your child.
Posted by: Martin R | June 5, 2007 1:59 PM