[PEN-L:1442] Re: Re: Enlightenment insight

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Louis Proyect wrote:

> Postmodernism is a philosophical current that emerged as a reaction to
> structuralism. Hence, it sometimes called poststructuralism.

Mm, it's a bit more complicated than that. Postmodernism is/was primarily
about the *aesthetics* of global finance capitalism, in its intermediary
phase between rabid Thatcherism and mature neoliberalism;
post-structuralism is/was about social theories of global finance
capitalism. Thus all the talk about the *postmodern sublime* of
data-processing, cyberpunk, etc., as opposed to the post-struc stuff about
archeologies of power, desire, etc.

-- Dennis