Re: Re: postmodernism?

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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techno-libertarianism, the Zapatistas, al-Qaeda, and rhizomatic networks
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From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 4:45 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:20006] Re: postmodernism?


> Devine, James wrote:
>
> >wouldn't it be more accurate to say "pre-modern" instead of
"post-modern"?
> >It seems that Afghanistan hasn't had the modernist nationalist revolution
of
> >the sort that (say) France had, creating "the French" and the French
> >nation-state.
>
> Yeah, but the Taliban were also created by the U.S., Pakistan, Saudi
> Arabia, the collapse of the USSR, etc. Very polycentric, though
> hardly plurivocal.
>
> Doug
>