[FoRK] The Golden Compass: AWEsome!

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 2, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Bill Humphries wrote:

>
> On Dec 2, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Lion Kimbro wrote:
>
>>  I do sense a desire to break with post-modern cynicism, in
>>  our society.
>>
>>    http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?PostModern
>
> Do you know what post-modernism really is, or just how the term  
> gets thrown around by nerdy libertarians?

I'm not sure anybody "knows what post-modernism really is."

Witness the history of the USENET group alt.postmodern, which spent  
at least the first several years after its founding arguing about  
what, in fact, the newsgroup was supposed to be ABOUT.  (This is a  
topic near and dear to my heart as in fact the newsgroup, rather  
embarrassingly, was originally intended merely as a destination for  
some misplaced discussion previously on alt.cyberpunk, and *not* in  
fact originally intended for academic / critical discussion of  
postmodernism per se!)

    I think most of us are interested in examining and discussing  
literary
    (and musical) works that possess a certain stylistic excellence  
and perhaps a
    rather extreme perspective; this is what CP is all about, no?   
Maybe there
    should be a newsgroup like, say, alt.postmodern or somthing.   
Something less
    restrictive in scope than alt.cyberpunk.

       -- me, alt.cyberpunk, '88 or thereabouts

My own theory:  post-modernism is a schmoo.

Wallowing in (post-modern) vanity,

;-)

jb

"Everyone's head is a cheap movie show."  - me, pre-historical USENET