[Nettime-bold] History returns

["Robert Lucas" <staedlerjr@hotmail.com>]

Funny how history is measured in "eventness". Historians have been lingering 
over the fall of the Berlin Wall for the last decade as the symbolic final 
fall of the modern with the ruins of soviet communism. In a world where 
conflict was less visible and where threats could not so easily be 
identified, it was pretty easy to drift on with the sense that no matter how 
repulsive a thought it was, Fukuyama might have been right about something 
in that great mess of a book...
Without identifiable grand "events" or threats to American model capitalism, 
we could have been excused for believing that there was a certain remoteness 
from history itself in the West (and that's the same thing as the postmodern 
sense of unreality)... With the recent attacks, history has perhaps 
returned.

Rob.

*	To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
*	Subject: <nettime> [ot]FW.:.the era of postmodernism ended:.:
*	From: Leili <nethics@cyberosis.tv>
*	Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:12:39 +0800
*	Delivered-To: nettime-archive@nettime.khm.de
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From: Aleksandr Gitelman <alichek@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:12:49 -0700
To: nethics@cyberosis.tv
Subject: remember me?

[...]

you know, i read someone saying that with the fall of the twin towers
which were a perfectly postmodernist piece of architecture -- reflections
of each other without an original -- the era of postmodernism ended.
self-reference, irony, repetition, etc., all the attributes of
postmodernism which basically devoid creation of reality, authenticity
will be now void as reality came down crashing a hundred stories and
rendered things meaningful.

[...]

alec.

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