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From: Bob <suannschafer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:03:51 -0500
>Here's an attempt I made to define postmodernism once. Corrections and
>criticisms appreciated, should anyone here be so inclined.
>>This word is used in different though related ways in different
>>disciplines. It actually started off as a term that applied to an
>>architectural style.
WRONG. That's the myth. Or do you mean "widely applied"? An earlier
reference may be found in an essay by Leo Steinberg in _Other Criteria_ I
don't have the book here to be more exact. Someone else has traced earlier
uses of the postmodern(ism/ity)
>>One last point: we should not think of "postmodernism" as an exclusive
>>possession of the "left." The term (in the sense that we are discussing it
>>here) was first introduced by historians like Toynbee and sociologists like
>>Daniel Bell. They *describe* the postmodern condition, but *deplore* it.
Precisely my point above.
But largely on the whole, very good, very useful.