Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 05:47:29 -0700
Sender: pen-l@ecst.csuchico.edu
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com>
Subject: Re: PoMo
 
What does it mean that emancipation must be from modernity itself? This
is the disturbing subtext in much leftish pomoismo. Does modernity mean
the inheritance of Enlightenment rationalism, which is to be attacked in
itself rather than in its distorted instrumentalist form (a la the
Frankfurters)? Does it mean industrial civilization itself rather than
its distorted class forms? Does it mean the idea of progress, in the name
of antiteleological particularist freeplay? If this be the good
postmodernism, gimme the Grundrisse.
 
Doug Henwood [dhenwood@panix.com]