It seems telling to me that the content of particular forms of micro-genre, which have become coupled to 'irrational' forms of politics, often express a nostalgia not for modernity or pre-modernity, but for the vertigo-inducing postmodernity that Jameson descrbes
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Replying to @EBBerger
I think you are confounding two fundamental different categories based on your posts. The postmodern condition as a form of historical dialectic and postmodernism as a style or a template in which you can dump a lot of modernist vagaries.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @EBBerger
Not seeing any difference between those categories.
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I also don't see 'postmodernism' as something entirely new, but a style or package of cultural modes linked to particular tendencies in capitalist development that we have, in fact, seen before in history (1870s - early 1900s)
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Well that is where you are wrong. The post-modern condition is not a style. You seem to confuse style with a tendency of a system (in this case, modernity or capitalism).
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Hmm, I don't think so -- the style reflects a condition, the conditon designates the moving to the fore of particular tendencies in capitalist development (neither modernity or 'post'modernity have reality outside of capitalism, as Postone and Buck-Morss have shown)
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and I don't see how this differs in any meaningful way from thishttps://twitter.com/NegarestaniReza/status/1224392352850157568 …
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No you are getting it all wrong. Postmodernism is only reflective in a mundane sense, the critique of post-modern condition is negatively and positively dialectical.
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I'd call myself postmodernist and defend it on the grounds that negative and positive dialectics are embedded within it, although only visible in long trajectories. It is (or has the quality of) the "yes" of French theory learning to say "no", and the opposite for German theory.
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But that's not postmodernism as a micro-style. It is actually a fruit of determinate negation.
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Agreed. That's one of those "morbid symptoms". But it can be understand as postmodernism with a capital P insofar as it is incomplete and mistakes its recognition of difference and respect of limits as an excuse to shirk its duty against fragmentation.
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