Dear Jerry,
Perhaps the post-modern condition you talk about is merely a
post-modern posing?
you write:
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It just seems to me that the consequences of being embedded, situated
and
de-centered are more apparent today because of our postmodern
awareness.
Ideologies, points-of-view, unspoken assumptions, power relationships
and
the repertoires of experience we bring to interpretations and the
construction of meaning are no longer so easily avoided or ignored.
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The awareness of being embedded, the apprehension of being situated,
the consciousness of being de-centered - these are all significant
experiential achievements that are rare. However, the posing, in these
ways, in the act of arguing, is very common. Just as an actor might put
hand on hip, and left foot forward, so the good po-mo soul can raise
these issues, in complex and fascinating ways. But, the experience of
being de-centered, for example, is a radical and disturbing experience.
It does not lead to argument but rather to unsettling, disruption and a
long period of adjustment that evidences itself in subtle dispositions
and forms of mediation. I know very few people who are equal to these
concepts as lived experiences. I know even fewer such souls who are
intellectuals. There are some moments in recent design that illustrate
these concepts but very few designs that evidence knowing.
cheers
keith russell
OZ newcastle
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