Sunday, October 31, 2004

I Think Therefor I Am

When I was child, I'd so many question about life and thought that religion could answer my questions.
But after I grew up I realise that nothing more important than me.
If I can't think how can I know that I am an individual person.
If any god somewhere around here so why should I live here.
Religion is just a tool for feudal system or for someone who want to control a group of person by talk about supernatural.
So fucking religion. Any I mean.
Don't try to make me believe some of them cause I will never believe.
Anything but me.

Tuesday, October 05, 2004


Uses of the term "postmodern"

1. after modernism (subsumes, assumes, extends the modern or tendencies already present in modernism, not necessarily in strict chronological succession)

2. contra modernism (subverting, resisting, opposing, or countering features of modernism)

3. equivalent to "late capitalism" (post-industrial, consumerist, and multi- and trans-national capitalism)

4. the historical era following the modern (an historical time-period marker)

5. artistic and stylistic ecclecticism (hybridization of forms and genres, mixing styles of different cultures or time periods, de- and re-contextualizing styles in architecture, visual arts, literature)

6. "global village" phenomena: globalization of cultures, races, images, capital, products ("information age" redefinition of nation-state identities, which were the foundation of the modern era; dissemination of images and information across national boundaries, a sense of erosion or breakdown of national, linguistic, ethnic, and cultural identities; a sense of a global mixing of cultures on a scale unknown to pre-information era societies)

Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard:
Postmodern as a historical/cultural "condition" based on a dissolution of master narratives or metanarratives, a crisis in ideology when ideology no longer seems transparent (see The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge)

Frederic Jameson:
Postmodernism as a movement in arts and culture corresponding to a new configuration of politics and economics, "late capitalism": transnational consumer economies based on global scope of capitalism. (See Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism)

Sunday, October 03, 2004


Postmodernism

The term postmodernism (according to the Latin etymology, postmodern literally means "after what is now") refers to a philosophical and cultural movement, the central premise of which is the rejection of all "metanarratives" (ways of thinking that unite knowledge and experience to seek to provide a definitive, universal truth).

There is also the term postmodernity. This term refers to a set of perceived (sociological, technological, &c.) conditions, which are distinctly different from the conditions of modernity. The discussion of postmodernity is the discussion of these conditions. Postmodernism is the intellectual (cultural, artistic, academic, and philosophical) response to these conditions.

And then there is the term postmodern, which is an adjective used to describe a thing that is either a condition of postmodernity or a response to postmodernity. Beyond this relationship, the term is meaningless in itself. But when combined with a condition or response, it is used to refer to a set of ideas which seek to interpret the condition or response. For example, one may refer to postmodern architecture, postmodern literature, postmodern culture, postmodern philosophy, &c. The fact that there is no one underlying meta-narrative for defining "postmodern", but that the definition is instead fragmented, makes it difficult for those not aware of this fragmentation to understand what it means to be "postmodern".