Hi Keith,
If by 'critique' you mean 'comprehensive criticism', I would not be interested in offering that because (although there are issues in the quote which I would problematise and although I appreciate that within dominant frames of reference some of the points in the quote may be hard to accept and easy to ridicule), I am in general agreement with much of (how I read) the quotation and think community (and other) psychologies informed by such ideas less problematic than the currently 'modernist' dominant ones.
If by 'critique' you mean 'processing from a critical frame of reference' (processing which would bring to the surface ideological implications including ones which are progressive), I would be in interested in participating part in that except that it would take some time to do adequately and I am struggling to find time for existing commitments at the moment. However the book which you talked about buying (Denzin and Lincoln 3rd Ed.) has many contributions which draw positively on 'post modern' scholarship and I think reading those will illustrate this point.
David
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Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Post Modernism doesn't believe in progress
Colleagues,
I was shocked to read this from MacLure (1995) on the Impact of
Postmodernism :
As a starting point: think fragmentation, ambiguity, loss of certainty.
Think of postmodernism as a kind of undoing of all the habits of mind of
so-called western thought that have prevailed over the last two
centuries - the decidability of truth, the inevitability of progress,
the triumph of reason, the possibility of a universal modern code, the
objectivity of science, the forward march of history, the existence of
the singular, autonomous self. These foundational principles, are all to
do with making the world knowable, accountable, unambiguous,
generalisable, predictable, coherent, manageable and mutually
comprehensible. They have all, at one time or another, been held to be
characteristic of modernism. And post-modernism says 'No' to them. You
will begin to understand its widespread unpopularity.
MacLure, M. (1995) Postmodernism: a post script, Educational Action
Research, 6 (3) 453-469
Is there anyone out there who might offer me a critique of this
postmodernism?
Keith Venables
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