Re: Re: postmodernism or flying carpets?

[ALI KADRI <akadri_00@xxxxxxxxx>]

an analytical socilogist says had they been premodern
they would have used flying carpets.
--- Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.thethresher.com/devo.html
> techno-libertarianism, the Zapatistas, al-Qaeda, and
> rhizomatic networks
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
> >
>


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