All of us have probably had occasion to feel or say that “it’s
all a matter of timing, ” and fortunately we probably care in unequal degrees about
the many things we may have “missed” through our inattention, miscues, missed
cues, etc.
Peter Griffin, Example of "Post-Modern Architecture," Zhengzhou Green Fair, China
I think I missed (am currently missing and will continue to miss) post-modernism. The only thing the term has ever meant to me
(that is to say, the image that forms in my mind whenever I hear it) is of
the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan becoming overfull (even after its porcine over-expansion), over-capacity, and art
marketers desperately meeting in secret committees to coin a new term to promote and sell subsequent "art events" and so-called "art developments." Branding, after all, is everything
these days.
Today, while engaging in research concerning the
weird and deplorable "human microphone" (the people control device/exercise being used at
contemporary political rallies), I learned that I really must have missed "queer theory" too (although I knew of its existence) because it is apparently in the process of being supplanted by "post-queer theory" (skip to end of linked article).
Scully and Mulder. For some reaon, Mulder is identified in this photo as the "Post-Modern Prometheus."
I can survive without regret both of these losses or deficiencies. Generally I am able, when I need or want to,
to understand complicated, even insanely prolix, pieces of literature or technical
writing, provided their authors are sincerely trying to communicate, are making a palpable effort to
make themselves understood.
M.C. Escher, Relativity, 1953. Modern? Post-Modern? None of the above? Queer, certainly, and proudly so.
I cannot accomplish this, however, nor can I abide reading self-involved,
neologism and jargon-filled academic or pseudo-academic writing that
clearly seeks to impress, but is nothing more than grotesque and distorted Fun House mirror
fare.
I sincerely believe that this kind of work is intentionally self-deceptive and that it also seeks to deceive readers based on the authors' contempt, anger and fear.
I sincerely believe that this kind of work is intentionally self-deceptive and that it also seeks to deceive readers based on the authors' contempt, anger and fear.
Post-modern Chinese surgical needles (Actual caption label)
Mrs. Danvers must fit in here somewhere. The rest is silence, except for:
(Bonzo Dog Band links from Keynsham, 1969)
[Please Note 3 links in Paragraph 3]
[Please Note 3 links in Paragraph 3]
