I prefer postcolonialism to postmodernism, is that so wrong?

they're both inventions that assume a rupture or an escape from eternal recurrence which, given the renaissance of enlightenment/modernist/fundamentalist discources, can only ever show themselves as emerging from the particular historicities of their existence. that said, both provide tools to critique power, difference and differance, and probably have more in common with each other than opposing, especially with the contemporary focus on ethics and in particular ethics of the self.
do as thou wilt... wilt as thou do.

i guess they both wouldn't be so frustrating if they didn't always descend into a discourse of "OTHERING." but i guess that is the point, right?

I'm going to try and argue in my PhD that if you go via the routes of a Foucauldian ethics of the self, mixed in with some Beckett and Camus, the Othering shouldn't be this giant pool of shit that it turns out to be. A crude breaking down would say we wouldn't get ourselves into so much shit if we just sat around, believed in nothing, and concentrated on turning our own lives into ethical works of art instead of shitting down someone's throat and calling it freedom... or something...

There's a rocker of an article Said wrote on Foucault in the late 70s that I think had a lot of impact on F, and it would have been interesting to see what Said had to say about the former's turn to the ethical.

that sounds quite interesting, actually.

i guess i'm just reacting against all those silly "othering" papers i had to write as an undergrad.