Re: post-Modernmisms and their discontents

[Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxx>]

It occurs to me that this list may be interesting precisely
because it's jam-packed with ah...younger colleagues who
were raised on some amount of postmodern theory or at
least a plurality of possible aesthetics, and have been brought
by their tools and the conditions of simultaneous consumption
and production face to face with a kind of formalism which
is something arrived at by personal practice rather tha as
something demonized by their well-meaning teachers or
mentors - and is, as a result, somehow more "personal" and
less easy to dismiss even though it may fly in the face of
their trainings and background..

Of course, most formalists of any stripe *also* arrive at
said position by the same route. They may not have done
so in a context in which it may be associated with the
excesses of The Old Dispensation.

gregory