Re: [PEN-L] Sokal's Prank and Pomo

[Doyle Saylor]

Greetings Economists,
CB writes,
The postmod challenges to Marxism as just another master narrative have been
pretty harmless in effect, since Marxism is pretty reviled already in the bourgeois academy, at least in the U.S.

Doyle,
Harmless, and or passé as LP says, Marxist still have a reason to criticize the
assumptions of Post Modernists.

CB,
I would just like to see more effective radical or even reformist propaganda
coming from the postmodern projects.

Doyle,
One can see in their relativistic analysis, how realistic materialistic, mental conflicts, might arise in a text, but not have a clue of where to go with that or how to bring up important elements of the structure that matter in developing practical action.

There is a material basis for seeing variable points of view that was obvious for centuries as Autopletic brings up and is not tethered to text. We have some idea that the relativistic cognitive structure is a six layered sheet of neurons. We have plenty of evidence in vision theory how that relativism appears, for example the Land-Mondrian experiments.

The critical Post Modernist error is the understanding of text as a product of human cognition, but not grounding that in the human body. Their narrow focus upon text to see relativism also reflects their aversion to ‘reductionism’.

CB,
In other words, with their insights into superstructure, that it consists of structure, grand
narratives/"stories", and metaphors, analogies, isomorphisms, ambiguities, puns, double and triple entendres should not only be fun, but a basis for influencing the way masses think so that they will change the world.

Doyle,
Charles wants to see some action come out of the paralysis or stagnation that over took Post Modernism. The reason the method theory evaporated was their metaphysics not grounded in the body prevents them from acting on relativism.

Text is linear and cognition is non-linear. To question text when one knows cognition is non-linear seems central to me. Since that long known physical fact can’t be addressed by grand narrative theory for reasons of being outside the boundaries of legitimate Post Modern inquiry, you just hit the brick wall.
thanks,
Doyle