OK! This piece which many of you have found difficult and some of you have become quite annoyed with. It addresses postmodern ideas in its own language but whereas postmodernism seeks to complicate & confuse, this piece seeks to show the workings. 1 of many.https://twitter.com/thesadredearth/status/972840550717181952 …
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We can all do that. I can do that. I can't do what A. Jay did but I can love it and want him to do more of it. Even if it won't reach a wide audience and there has to be two versions, I hope he'll keep doing it & link it to a simple description.
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That you can’t produce word salad like that speaks well of you as a writer. I probably could because I have a flair for parody, but I wouldn’t want to.
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Well, we'll have to agree to disagree about that. But it doesn't matter much. Nothing more pointless than arguing about things that give others aesthetic pleasure. We can just read something else.
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To read, not to write. Writing clearly is hard. That is why people who can do it have a special skill. Relatedly, if an idea seems to require obscure expression, the idea itself may be at fault.
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OK, good writers can right straightforwardly. We can't all write in that mixture of postmodernism and poetic style which so perfectly suits the content. I've never seen anyone do that but I'm going to keep reading it aloud because it is beautiful.
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This is what I love about postmodernism - the allusive meandering language which captures the feel of a thing. I have often said it should exist as an art form. The problem is it talks complete bollocks. That didn't. That used it for precision & sharp analysis.
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I get why people are saying it could have been written more simply & briefly & got its point across clearly but that, I think, is to completely miss the point. It would then just be like a hundred other straightforward, clear arguments.
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It’s dreadful writing. I understand what he’s on about having been force-fed this tosh, and I didn’t finish it. Pity the poor person who, on a sudden, is forced to take a mental midget like Liz Grosz seriously.
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Well, now you've informed me of this, I no longer absolutely love it. I'll let the other people who did know they shouldn't either. I really think you just have to accept that people can find different things beautiful & meaningful even if you don't see why they do.
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‘Quality’ in the arts isn’t purely subjective. Some things are better than others. There is, of course, room for disagreement, but an Aristotelean aristocracy of excellence is possible.
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OK, then. Still, it really doesn't hurt you at all if I love something you don't and telling me I shouldn't really isn't going to achieve anything.
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