Thursday, March 27, 2008
Post Modernism's Origins:
"Reality is nothing but a meaning, and so can be changed
to meet the needs of history, when history demands the subversion
of the foundations of civilization as we know it" .
-- Roland Barthes "Historical Discourses," in Social Sciences Information 6, 4, August, 1967.
What do you think?
Is history only a "meaning" and thus open to manipulation?
Or does some truth exist "out there" that can be known?
Do any of our disciplines have access to some universal reality,
or is each one merely an interest group pushing the tribal interests of the individuals in control?
Even if all this is true, and everyone is corrupt, need we resign to that inevitability? Or can we break out of the Matrix? Just how much of a fool, or a hero, is Neo, anyhow?
Food for thought................
"Reality is nothing but a meaning, and so can be changed
to meet the needs of history, when history demands the subversion
of the foundations of civilization as we know it" .
-- Roland Barthes "Historical Discourses," in Social Sciences Information 6, 4, August, 1967.
What do you think?
Is history only a "meaning" and thus open to manipulation?
Or does some truth exist "out there" that can be known?
Do any of our disciplines have access to some universal reality,
or is each one merely an interest group pushing the tribal interests of the individuals in control?
Even if all this is true, and everyone is corrupt, need we resign to that inevitability? Or can we break out of the Matrix? Just how much of a fool, or a hero, is Neo, anyhow?
Food for thought................
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