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[backy]

Resistance to the "power of the mainstream" is always cool. Postmodernism was cool because it embodied all resistances. It was the ballbuster of every oppressive hegemon, every feminazi cliche, every nauseatingly totalizing political text. It was cool.
But what happens as po-mo gets more and more mainstream and itself is a hegemon? As we start

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[redivoreezbrown]

you say: what's up with all the posts in italian?
i say: what's up with all the posts full of intellectual-sounding jargon that make you sound like the underground man mumbling to himself?

(oh, lest you forget again, i like to tease. i don't really think your posts are bad at all. i think they're....well, i think i'd like them to be intellectually stimulating but i don't know enough about nietzsche and company and so mostly i just like to make fun of you for consciously talking like an arrogant prick using phrases most people wouldn't understand. don't be sad.)

[backy]

you big tease, you

[anonymous]

Je vous aime, les amoureux. he he he. Backy, il y a trop de verite en ce que tu racontes la. Le postmodernisme devient finalement un theorie pour les masses. Ce que je trouve interessant dans tout ces changements critico-philosophiques sont les cycles d'acceptance du conventionel et la rejection de l'ordre etabli, l'un suivi par l'autre. A mon avis, les etres humains sont des creatures inconstant qui ne seront jamais satisfait avec ce qu'on voit, touche...tout ce qu'on peut faire avec les sept sens...

[backy]

I completely agree with you in that the we won't be satisfied with what we see or touch, but will always try to subvert. Maybe part of the pleasure, as Derrida had pointed out, was in movement, oscillation and indecision. As the fool, having sex for the first time finds out, it's not "in" or "out", but rather, in and out and in and out again. "Freeplay is the disruption of presence", if you permit me this little Derridean reference.