I mean, it sort of reached its apogee in the eighties, didn't it?
― amusing muse, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)
Saying postmodernism is over is like saying punk is dead. A few people who think they are cool and like to have fun without thinking too much, still follow it. Also it's permeated into pop culture without any of it's original substance.
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)
Do you mean Postmodernism as academic vogue (largely over), or the postmodern society/culture/whatever that they described (probably won't ever be "over")?
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)
You know? Like, I don't think it's possible to put that particular cat back into the bag.
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)
Postmodernism very cunningly destroyed the modern subject. So there's nobody left to say postmodernism is over. Sure you can mouth the words, but you're just a man of paste being spoken by language.
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)
If you're talking about postmodernity as a societal state, many social scientists argue that it has never fully happened. While some layers of our society may be postmodern, some of them are also modern or premodern. Many sociologists prefer the term "late modernity".
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)
LEE PERRY CAN'T DIE:
"So I was starting to get involved in the reggae then I discovered that the meaning of the reggae it mean a strange dog who is designed to kill. So I won’t let the reggae kill me, but whoever the reggae must kill, the reggae must kill. Too much bad man and the raggamuffin a come out of it. That’s why myself in my original state is a soul man, what I was before meeting Bob Marley the reggae king. Now the reggae kings are dying and the reggae princes are dying, and I don’t want to die in it. But I will assist it to do what it have to do.
I used to love reggae, but I’m not a reggae lover anymore, I stop make reggae. Out of those reggae that I produce out of Jamaica, I wanted to build the Black Ark studio and there was no money coming from Chris Blackwell and Island Records. And neither from Bob Marley. Bob Marley write Jah Live and die. What a ting dat. Bob Marley write Jah Live and he die. Then what he want to do, him say God send God as a lion ? He write Small Axe, he said and mek the axe chop him. And he sing Duppy Conquerer and the duppy conquer him, so he’s telling lie. But I don’t want I will assist you people to do what you have to do with it, but I’m going back to Jamaica to build the Ark of the Covenant, but there won’t be no reggae musician nor dreadlocks coming through that gate. Say judgement and justice. I shall not pick up a curse, and my locks shall not wither. Says God’s son of David. My locks shall not wither, and my body shall not see corruption. And I shall not pick up a dread curse on my head. Cause I’m well blessed, I’m not cursed. I’m defending Jesus Christ. And a few dread defend Jesus Christ and say Jesus exists. And people say who say Jesus no exist, they die because they say dat. Like Peter Tosh. Yeah. All people who say Jesus Christ no exist they shall die. While I shall laugh, ha ha ha. And I really decide not to help Jamaican again. I know care who they are. Not even my family I won’t help again in Jamaica. I will not live on through the reggae. And I’m the richest man in the world, I inherit all the money and all the power. And I will not help a Jamaican again as long as I live, so help me God. And as the sun shine, and as the clothes fly. I will never change my hands and help a Jamaican again, never.
I am imitating Jesus. So my performing means spiritually healing, healing the brain of the sick people. Who are dread, and who are dead. So I have to come back and heal their brain, and heal their head, and save those from cocaine reggae. Save some from cocaine reggae, and from cancer reggae, and from death reggae. The gift of God is eternal life. And if a man is dead, don’t boil the dead, because he dead, dead, dead because he dead the sin. You can’t die unless you sin. You cannot scruple unless you sin. And you cannot paralyze unless you sin."
-Lee 'Scratch' Perry
― hexyAnswer, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)
I love Lee Scratch Perry's music, but I would not, for instance, put him in charge of a
polio vaccination program.
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)
George Bush called Eminem 'The biggest threat to American youth since Polio.' Despite this, Israel Vibration has not stopped.
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)
or if you really want, only once, but don't do them a second time!
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)