Iron Xides so basically it's like obscure pop culture references but classier?
simon666 It's a rejection of the privileging of metaphysics of absence that has largely defined Western culture since Plato introduced his theory of Forms. The idea being that what is "real" or of "value" is not something outside of one's self or the experience that an agent must get to, but rather informed or constituted in the now.
Or to put it even another way: Being weird for the sake of being weird.
ProfessorChaos I had the video stop loading for a while at :10. That just made it better.
Caminante Nocturno That title is very misleading to a particular group of people.
WHO WANTS DESSERT I know, I came in expecting Stooges being philosophical and was disappointed!
Xenocide Somewhere there is a terrible manga with the same title as this video. In it we learn that postmodernism is about panties.
MrBuddy Moe Howard, manga and panties ARE post-modern!
Urkel Forever This gives way too much credit to the intellectual merits of postmodernism.
oswaldtheluckyrabbit I always thought it was a kind of stripping away of the barriers between so-called "high" and "low" art, but maybe that's wrong
fluffy It's replacing them with entirely new barriers. For every actual piece of art in a modern/postmodern art gallery, you have about 50 people who are just collecting trash from the side of the freeway as some sort of ecological statement, or deconstructing their essence into a representative graph of wishes vs. deeds, or saying "fuck it I'll just rip off DuChamp."
Valkor Guys. Seriously. This is a good and valid joke but it isn't necessarily negative.
You may as well be making complaints that Rodin must have used real people as molds and that his work was too realistic instead of embracing the perfect shadows that lurk at the edges of our reality.
Pink wine can be darn good.
pineapplejuicer i won't argue with your defense of postmodernism, but fuck pink wine
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