As a working novelist, I kinda hate to admit it,
but I dote on pure-D postmodern archi-speak
like this stuff. I was in the back of the room with
the undergraduates when Michael Speaks
started really dishing it out hot and heavy,
nosebleed-pomo stylee. A few of them
dared to snicker. That's because they're
philistines, folks. Philistines from Texas.
They're young. They know no better.
http://www.archilab.org/public/2000/catalog/speaksen.htm
Michael Speaks carries on, in dense, tiny print, at considerable length
Since I was paying such rapt attention,
I now know that we're no longer in the Postmodern
era. We're in the SUPERModern era! How
can you tell? Watch this!
MODERN POSTMODERN SUPERMODERN
18th c - 1960s 1960s-1990s 1990s-present day
International Multinational Globalized
Nation-States Multinationals Market States
Philosophy Theory Actionable Intelligence
Discovery
of Truth Uncovering
Repressed Truth Datamining the Chatter
Essence Simulacra Plausibility
There's something dreadfully PLAUSIBLE about it,
isn't there? Oh gosh, I can hear the chatter
spreading already...
