economical worries also causes post-modern virtues. Our governments as
systems of managing resources have become very unefficient and our lives
have become so expensive that even a professional now adays is poor and that
is another reason for post-modern pessimism.
>From: tony ralph <a.ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: post-modern vertigo or the crisis of modernity?
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:33:13 +1100 (EST)
>
>
>[message]...Hey Foucault scholars...any writings on what many have termed
>"post-modern vertigo" - the state of disorientation that may result after
>reading a lot of PoMo.
>Thanks :) Nate Goralnik
>
>
>Postmodern vertigo is not a virus or contaminant caught from subversive
>texts, it is the crisis that emerges when the believer recognises that
>their faith in modernity is a failure, the realisation that the tenets of
>modernity* - continuity, progress, order, control - are really only
>systems of faith that are imposed from outside on a world of disruption,
>divergence, competition and conflict. A realisation that shatters the
>believer who suddenly recognises themselves as a subversive text.
>
>As this crisis of modernity errupts, the believer - including the closet
>believer who so easily sheds their postmodern guise - is consumed by a
>state of accelerating panic, so they turn back and reach for all that they
>know to be stable and pure, for only this certainty they <desire> can bring
>hope into their world, but at the same time they know too well that the
>faith they are grasping now <hopelessly> for, is no longer there, and never
>was.
>
>And in this state of pure panic, the believer stands mute, arms
>outstretched towards this illusion that now betrays them, a vertigo
>overwhelms them, terror tears at their vision, and crying "oh god" they
>fall backwards into this thing they call the void, into this thing they
>call nihilism, and experience postmodern vertigo, or the crisis of
>modernity, this vertigo that only infects true believers - the socialist,
>capitalist and the devout, who face the world (the postmodern), who witness
>the failure (of modernity), and who regardlessly adhere to their faith**.
>
>* the tenets are preferred and proffered by the pious, the orthodox, the
>traders (the economie), and the radicals (the academie) alike.
>
>** a faith so strong that in exposing modernity it can only use words like
>disintegration, disillusion and chaos, and phrases like the collapse of
>reason and the decent into barbarism.
>
>Maybe "Panic Encyclopaedia" Arthur and Marilouise Kroker or some of their
>other works
>
>or "Death at the Parasite Cafe" Stephen Pfohl
>
>Tony
>
>
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systems of managing resources have become very unefficient and our lives
have become so expensive that even a professional now adays is poor and that
is another reason for post-modern pessimism.
>From: tony ralph <a.ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: post-modern vertigo or the crisis of modernity?
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:33:13 +1100 (EST)
>
>
>[message]...Hey Foucault scholars...any writings on what many have termed
>"post-modern vertigo" - the state of disorientation that may result after
>reading a lot of PoMo.
>Thanks :) Nate Goralnik
>
>
>Postmodern vertigo is not a virus or contaminant caught from subversive
>texts, it is the crisis that emerges when the believer recognises that
>their faith in modernity is a failure, the realisation that the tenets of
>modernity* - continuity, progress, order, control - are really only
>systems of faith that are imposed from outside on a world of disruption,
>divergence, competition and conflict. A realisation that shatters the
>believer who suddenly recognises themselves as a subversive text.
>
>As this crisis of modernity errupts, the believer - including the closet
>believer who so easily sheds their postmodern guise - is consumed by a
>state of accelerating panic, so they turn back and reach for all that they
>know to be stable and pure, for only this certainty they <desire> can bring
>hope into their world, but at the same time they know too well that the
>faith they are grasping now <hopelessly> for, is no longer there, and never
>was.
>
>And in this state of pure panic, the believer stands mute, arms
>outstretched towards this illusion that now betrays them, a vertigo
>overwhelms them, terror tears at their vision, and crying "oh god" they
>fall backwards into this thing they call the void, into this thing they
>call nihilism, and experience postmodern vertigo, or the crisis of
>modernity, this vertigo that only infects true believers - the socialist,
>capitalist and the devout, who face the world (the postmodern), who witness
>the failure (of modernity), and who regardlessly adhere to their faith**.
>
>* the tenets are preferred and proffered by the pious, the orthodox, the
>traders (the economie), and the radicals (the academie) alike.
>
>** a faith so strong that in exposing modernity it can only use words like
>disintegration, disillusion and chaos, and phrases like the collapse of
>reason and the decent into barbarism.
>
>Maybe "Panic Encyclopaedia" Arthur and Marilouise Kroker or some of their
>other works
>
>or "Death at the Parasite Cafe" Stephen Pfohl
>
>Tony
>
>
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