"objet @" wrote:
quoted 15 lines "postmodern" such a classic red herring to use when talking about, oh,> > "postmodern" such a classic red herring to use when talking about, oh,
> > anything?
>
> Well, that depends on whether the use of the pomo-word refers in a
> concrete fashion to certain notable works of Jean-Francois Lyotard or
> Michael Graves, etc., or refers in a diffuse fashion to a Really Neat
> Buzzword that you remember from MTV after reading a couple of paragraphs
> about 'it' in a sophomore-level cultural studies class.
>
> in the case of a sardonic defense, it was pretty clear that the
> reference was specifically made to postmodern architecture.
>
> sr
> --
> sd
Yeah, yeah, you're right. "Baudrillard" was another "neat" name I heard on
MTV, too...