#postmodermism

[weil-weil-lautre]

I think that there’s a perception that postmodernism thinks it has given up a notion of reason that it characterizes as totalitarian, dominating, imperialistic. In fact, postmodernism is itself rationalism. I call postmodernism a ‘despairing rationalism without reason’ because it really wants to claim: ‘Look, you’ve let me out!’ – ‘me’ being a woman or a member of an ethnic minority. Now that’s a highly rational thing to say. It’s not the devastation of reason, it’s using reason. Reason is not this monolithic, domineering, authoritarian thing. It’s our bread and butter.

Gillian Rose, “Interview with Gillian Rose,” Theory, Culture & Society 2008 (SAGE, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore),Vol. 25(7–8): 201–218

[pwatem]

Staff's spooky October recommendation: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

If you allow yourself to be absorbed into the multilayered and nonlinear seduction of House of Leaves, you might begin to question your own understanding of reality. The novel opens with primary narrator, Johnny, who breaks into a dead old man’s apartment to find claw marks on the floorboards and a trunk full of unexplained papers. The reader is then lead into another story, one of a house with growing walls and autonomous additions, and an investigation that leads its initiators into madness. As Johnny begins to piece together the story that the old man himself had reconstructed- the recollection of a documentary called The Navidson Record for which Johnny can find no records of existence- he himself begins to enter a state of madness. Should you choose to find your way into these retellings, make sure you can find your way out.

[poetwritologist]

#worldpopulationday11july2018 Today is World Population Day. By the time you reach the end of this sentence, 18 acres of trees have been cut down or burned, 5 tons of plastic has landed in the oceans and 52 children have been born. Overpopulation is the primary reason for a number of health issues around the world. It’s in our hands to control this hazardous situation Let’s be more responsible towards family planning! #priyanandini #poetwritologist #postmodermism #controlpopulation #11july2018

[poetwritologist]

#worldpopulationday11july2018 Today is World Population Day. By the time you reach the end of this sentence, 18 acres of trees have been cut down or burned, 5 tons of plastic has landed in the oceans and 52 children have been born. Overpopulation is the primary reason for a number of health issues around the world. It’s in our hands to control this hazardous situation Let’s be more responsible towards family planning! #priyanandini #poetwritologist #postmodermism #controlpopulation #11july2018

[poetwritologist]

She is water: soft enough to offer life, tough enough to drown it away. #priyanandini #postmodermism #poetwritologist

[poetwritologist]

#poetwritologist #postmodermism #priyanandini

[poetwritologist]

Media is fourth pillar of democracy but I think nowadays social media is playing that role beautifully. Accessibility of it & Discussion on the #SocialMedia making it strong day by day. #30thofJune is a Social Media Day and we can’t stay away from that! You can hate it or love it, but social media became a big part of our day-to-day lives. But I feel like one day social media will get overwhelming and people will opt to go back to basics. Still.... #happysocialmediaday #beposititive #tumblr #poetwritologist #postmodermism

[camusjr]

Self? Ish.

The condition of modern expression has always seemed to me to be one of intensity over variety. Thusly, the feeling of feeling is now regarded in and of itself as a feeling when, in fact, it should be considered semiotically as the framework, the meta-syntax, within which feelings themselves can be constructed and then explored without the condition of emotion being perverted by a kind of postmodern detachment. The total failure of such a paradigm has created a connection between the self and emotion along which anyone can become disconnected from what they are feeling simply by using the all-pervasive culture around them as a reference point which - in a world defined by information and its transfer - is necessarily necessary.

Since the advent of irony as the primary medium of emotional transfer, helped overwhelmingly by the the paradox of information - phenomenological ephemerality versus potential permanence - in the internet age, and the devaluation of sincerity, the panicked reaction of the general person seems to have been to create this double-layered simulacrum both as a mechanism of defence and as a sociological indicator of cultural viability: the deep-seated want to belong.

Thus, we find a million restless souls cast adrift without a reference point in the interior of their selves - id est, what is the value of my values when the meta-nature of value itself is deconstructed by the insincerity of my feeling? - or in the culture within which they have to evolve and construct themselves - id est, it is now dangerous for my own wellbeing to assume that culture means what it says and can back that up with an emotional truth?

This, I posit, is the true danger of a postmodern condition, a caustically selfish condition: to force continual self-reference and raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-evaluation upon tortured minds predicated upon nothing more than a disjunct created by a society that fears the true sincerity that emotion brings upon a person in crashing, crushing waves of personal exposition and realisation.

After this ironic and attempted deconstruction of deconstruction the only remaining question is one of action, of what to do. There is nothing I can see outside of the self in this respect, the nature of change is a selfish one; but, if there was one glimmer, if there was one faint light, it would be the sudden and total realisation that every person you love and hate and deplore and revere has a skeleton within them.