Posts by Sacha
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I'd also note that postmodernists/poststructuralists are using "text" in a broad way.
I like "we're all born into language" as a paraphrase of Derrida's otherwise waffly French academic prose.
And I reject the assertion I quoted above that we can only care about either symbol or object, politics or culture, economics or pretty much everything else.
Smart humans are better weavers of meaning and action than that.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Russell Brown,
I gather he had a swift couple of glasses of wine afterwards
Pitch a "making of" doco to Brian - seems the behind the scenes of this ep would have been great telly
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Megan Clayton,
I am not a frequent commenter as PAS because I favour the long-form in writing and don't wish to clog up the columnage unduly.
I also encourage you to go for it.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Dude, step away from the Post-Modernism!
Yeah, it's what those new bourge-wah lefties are using to undermine clothcap modernism, don't you know.
See, the Left, or at least the socialist Left, is very much a modernist project. We’re materialists – we’re interested in government and the political-economic system for the real impacts it has on people’s lives. We’re not much interested in the symbols except as they relate to the real world.
Post-modernists care very much about symbols and little about the material world. Perhaps that’s mostly because they tend to be well-off and well-educated, so don’t have much in the way of material concerns themselves.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Russell Brown,
I banned Mr Derailing Asshole McTroll
I applaud your post-bounce shaming policy - and you've more than earned the right by now to get rid of problem commenters pronto. All strength to your deleting finger.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
a potential conflict of interest
what do you reckon that could be?
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Steve Parks,
refused to participate
I'd like to hear more about that
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Yep - slow start
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Virtual book tours seem to be the new way. Read a great article by an author comparing the traditional road trip and the new online option, but can't find it.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to recordari,
I’m such a TY geek, he could fart on record and I’d buy it
Yep