This text used to be hosted at Shalizi's university website, but it was recently taken down for unknown reasons. However, Internet Archive saves us, and I repost it here because it's interesting and so it doesn't get lost. This text has circulated quite a number of times on Usenet, and so far as I know is authentic. This version (less, of course, the HTML airs and graces) was posted by one jenm289@aol.com to rec.arts.books, 13 Nov 1995 03:21:23 -0500, message-id 486v63$9an@newsbf02.news.aol.com. Jenm289 wrote: "The following was written several months ago by Noam Chomsky in a discussion about po-mo and its contribution to activism et al. The discussion took place on LBBS, Z-Magazine's Left On-Line Bulletin Board (contact sysop@lbbs.org to join)."
Chomsky on postmodernism [repost]
Chomsky on postmodernism [repost]
Chomsky on postmodernism [repost]
This text used to be hosted at Shalizi's university website, but it was recently taken down for unknown reasons. However, Internet Archive saves us, and I repost it here because it's interesting and so it doesn't get lost. This text has circulated quite a number of times on Usenet, and so far as I know is authentic. This version (less, of course, the HTML airs and graces) was posted by one jenm289@aol.com to rec.arts.books, 13 Nov 1995 03:21:23 -0500, message-id 486v63$9an@newsbf02.news.aol.com. Jenm289 wrote: "The following was written several months ago by Noam Chomsky in a discussion about po-mo and its contribution to activism et al. The discussion took place on LBBS, Z-Magazine's Left On-Line Bulletin Board (contact sysop@lbbs.org to join)."