Postmodernism # 3

Postmodernism?

Girl: So what the hell is postmodernism?

Guy: What isn't it?

Girl: What the hell does that mean?

What do you want it to mean?

Alright! Cut the shit and answer the question!

Alright. Read?... Postmodernism is.... a question.

A question?! Wh--

Yes exactly! Postmodernism is an un-answerable question propositioned to us to make us crazy. Postmodernism is the limbo, the wait between the question asked and the answer recieved. It's the cruel joke that answers are so abundant we are drowning in them... which is right, or wrong, or even relevent? How can you tell?

You ask questions?

Exactly.

So postmodernism is just a question you can't answer?

No. It's the answer you don't know you have.

What?! Those are two different things! You said--

Are they? Or are they the same thing but merely twisted, reversed, inverted inot themselves and thus appearing different?

Don't go all post-modern on me now!

Fine. I won't.

Too late actually, but what else is postmodern then, or what isn't postmodern actually!

Well if modernism is an old black and white photo, basic chemistry and light to creat images, to creat art, then postmoderism is best seen as streaming video on the web. Make sense. It is a million times more complicated than that wich spawned it.

Whoa. But what does that mean? I don't get it?

"Postmodernism emphasizes constructed, mediated and encoded processes that provide us with the effect of truth, meaning and reality. It is therefore wary of Big Science that unproblematically construes itself as knowledge either discovered or discoverable."
--Postmodernism and Big Science

You mean Big Science has failed us?

Not failed us, it just has not defined us, understood us or saved us. "Some branches of postmodern thought claim that scientific knowledge is a construct that makes reality in it's own image, but also that it is a system of thought that is insecure"--PSB

So science legitimizes it's self in the same way that, say, religion does.

Basically, yes.

So what does that mean for religion?

"The modern ends up being at war with itself and must inevitably become the post-moder; (modern coming from the Greek modo meaning: now) 'after just now'"
--Appignanesi

"There is no remainder in the mathamatics of infinity"
--Duston Hoffman "I Heart Huckabees"