For some reason I just can't shut up about hipsters down thread (which, totally has to do with my whole crumbling postmodern empire thing).
AND! I was just thinking about how if postmodernism as a movement ends--how it would lead almost seamlessly into a revival of, like, oral tradition. I mean--not literally, of course. But the nature of storytelling in oral tradition and the nature of storytelling on the internet. And how in oral tradition who the author is is meaningless--and in the terminal position of postmodernism, the same thing is true. All identity is obliterated, so the identity of the author (necessarily) is meaningless. Anyway. I'm rambling again.
I don't know what my deal is--I feel like I'm on speed or something, the thoughts are just crowding in on my brain.
Dude. Also--I had the epiphany to end all epiphanies last night. I will have to flesh it out, though. But it was inspired by a comment of yours.
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AND! I was just thinking about how if postmodernism as a movement ends--how it would lead almost seamlessly into a revival of, like, oral tradition. I mean--not literally, of course. But the nature of storytelling in oral tradition and the nature of storytelling on the internet. And how in oral tradition who the author is is meaningless--and in the terminal position of postmodernism, the same thing is true. All identity is obliterated, so the identity of the author (necessarily) is meaningless. Anyway. I'm rambling again.
I don't know what my deal is--I feel like I'm on speed or something, the thoughts are just crowding in on my brain.
Dude. Also--I had the epiphany to end all epiphanies last night. I will have to flesh it out, though. But it was inspired by a comment of yours.