>Hi Andy re
>Good point. I gather it is difficult to accept that any act of individual
>resistance and social movement also build up a new and possible more
>perfected form of social exclusion. But that is life and we have to live
>with it
However the challenge of postmdernism is the suggestion that just
'living with it' does not alter the circumstances of those who are
excluded, nor does it encourage (all of) us to be mindful of the
potentially oppressive aspect any idea or behaviour brings with it.
>. The problem is how prioritise our time in this world and to be
>tolerant. Radical postmodernist try to create a utopian theoretical model
>with a perfect utopian language, reminding everyone how imperfect they all
>are and how imperfect and spurious their plight is.
well, perhaps imperfect, but I would not go as far as spurious myself.
>Critical modernists are
>more practical without being less critical.
For my money, it is postmodernism that is the practical tool, and is
, to me, a useable methodology that attempts to interrogate therefore
break down the binaries inherent in western thinking that encourages
us to prioritise one category to the detriment of another eg
man/woman, white/black etc. Critical modernism leaves the divisive
and oppressive nature of categorisation as a mindset unexamined. Eg
> I.e therefore 'postmodernist
>are a bunch of fascists wearing sheep skin'. these two fronts need a
>epistemological truce.
cheers Carol
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