[ExI] LA Times: 'Artscience' by David Edwards

[Natasha Vita-More]

At 07:51 PM 3/16/2008, you wrote:
>At 07:29 PM 3/16/2008 -0500, Natasha wrote:
>
> >>In the arts, the most profound academic movement of the last 30 years
> >>has been the rise of theory, which is the creative equivalent of an
> >>autopsy, less about culture than about the dissection of culture --
> >>and as such, a kind of cultural death.
> >
> >I can't make sense of this.  Sounds like postmodernist propaganda.
>
>This is a 180-degree misreading of David L. Ulin's statement. Like
>*anti*postmodernist propaganda, if anything. More strictly, I'd say,
>antipoststructuralism.

I was referring to what he was saying about Edwards.  Sorry, I ought 
to have said, "I can't make sense of  Edwards. Sounds like 
postmodernist propaganda."  You are far more knowledgeable than me 
about the fine lines and wide circles between postmodernism and 
poststructuralism.  I get all tongue-tied when in those waters.


Natasha