We Are Now in the Age of Post-Post-
Apr 15th, 2008 by Micah Tillman | 5 Comments |
I’m getting annoyed with people’s using the prefix “post.” “Postmodern,” “post-national,” “post-partisan,” “post-protestant,” “post-Christian,” “post-secular,” etc.
From here on, I insist that we be in the post-post- era. We are beyond post-’s. We have learned from the post-’s of the past and are better for it. We rise above the post-’s which divide. We look to the future, where post-’s no longer dominate and limit our thinking.
So the title for my next book will be:
Post-Post-: After the End of Endings, a Non-Beginning
And then I will finally get around to writing the book I’ve been planning for ages:
And & And: A Post-Dichotomo-Conjunctively-Titled Philosophy Book, at Long Last! (or:”I Made Your Two a Three and One”)
There are times when I think your great learning is driving you mad, Micah.
And then there are moments like this, when I KNOW it.
So, this was a post-post post?
LOL (this was for both your post, Micah, and Scott’s comment). :D
It’s times like this I miss ya’ll. :)
Careful, you’re becoming Nietzsche. He said he would write a book and when it was finally published, it was totally anti-semitic because of his good-for-nothing sister (as we learned today in class). I’m sure you do not want that since we all know you are against racism.
Why don’t you stop blogging and saying you will write and just write the whole thing. We all know that you say how the post-modernists are really modernists because they start out by rejecting one authority and replacing it with their own (higher) one. First it’s the church, then reason, now life. Now what? God? Sorry, I just started to rant. This is your blog, not mine. I have my own, as i referred to today. I’ll just stop now. :-)
Very funny.
When people started to use the term “post-modern” I already wondered what could possibly come next. It was a big mistake even to use the term “modern,” but that was before our time.