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I’m having a body snatchers moment, ever since Dase jumped in angry in a ‘da juice’ discussion I was having with SS where I was just pointing out the imho postmodern trappings of his argument. I thought with all the bitching about wokes, the criticism of postmodernism was baked in, but it appears it’s a major fault line on the board. So how many of you are postmodernists?
I don't think there are many postmodernists here. There are reactionaries and modernists predominantly.
In these terms, I would describe myself as a post-postmodernist. What exactly does that entail? That's the question that's up for grabs (it's not libertarian, it's not reactionary, it's not conservative, it's not progressive...).
I have no shortage of criticisms of postmodernism, but "postmodernism ruined modernism" is not an argument I make, @2rafa has emphasized this point in the past and I agree. If modernism led to postmodernism, how is going back to modernism any sort of solution? Postmodernism is a continuation and extension of enlightenment rationality. How can it be anything else?
Insofar as you describe postmodernism as a critique of grand narratives, I can get behind that high-level description, I am certainly not critical of grand narratives and believe them to be central to collective consciousness. Postmodernism is itself a grand narrative, post-postmodernism is ultimately about crafting a new 21st century grand narrative, not going backwards to the 1950s or wherever you think enlightenment rationality was best before it was subverted.
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