On Nov 6, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:

Doug Henwood wrote:



What's "post-modernism"?

How in the hell should I know. I seldom if ever use the term. Ask
Postone.

But you just did, by quoting him.

For the purposes of PEN-L, "post-modernism" is what biologists call a
wastebasket taxon - the category you throw all the stuff you don't
know how to classify into. In the PEN-L case, it's stuff people don't
like, but haven't read.

Doug

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