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Understanding Postmodernism, #4.

CONCEPT

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:


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Unfortunately, however, the myths of lucidity and progress also exacted an exorbitant price by fostering social and psychological economies that threatened all those humane values elaborated by the displaced aristocratic culture.

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Lunas 7, 28.

DIARY

– YESTERDAY – I watched Day of the Dead with Cody, cleaned some, and later on, Jess and Cody and I went to a housecooling party thrown by Daniel, a New School friend. Mostly, though, I worked on the last several entries for this blog.

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Understanding Postmodernism, #3.

CONCEPT

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:


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Writers and artists had to make such choices because they needed systematic and comprehensive alternatives to the dominant ideals of cultural modernism best represented by Enlightenment thinkers who emphasized a secular rationality promoting empiricism, material progress, and increasing democratization.

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Lunas 6, 28.

DIARY

I’m going to go quickly today because I’ve a lot to do and time isn’t waiting.

– YESTERDAY – After work, created a Blockbuster account and got movies. Ate Chicken Parmesan with Jess and Cody. Watched Night of the Living Dead again.

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