pre class for Jameson...King Kriggle!!!!

Well after reading what could very easily be considered one of the hardest readings of my life, you seriously were not kidding doc, there is only one or two things from this that I feel I can speak about in an educated way. When he speaks about the rise of aesthetic populism and postmodernism one of the first things he mentions is the architecture, it is really interesting because he mentioned how it came under criticism and analysis and was constantly compared to modernism. Then i thought back to the other posts and thought to myself why can’t we seriously compare something postmodern without having to look back at modernity? I mean now it is interesting because all of those architecture lectures are finally starting to make some sense, but it is interesting to me that it would be used as a forefront for a new movement like that. I thought it was interesting how he said how the break “should not be thought of particularly as a cultural affair” this was definitely going into depth about the topic whch he does in the next 10 pages following that quote, but at the same time I really felt as though it was a bit long winded. I frankly got more and more confused when the “Euphoria and Self-annihilation” section came about because as usually it was being compared to art as he had done in a previous section, but I just think a good deal of these theories don’t seem to have any empirical background, and yes I understand as soon as I wrote that that a good deal of these things and ideas cant be proven empirically, but it certainly would help him because the ideas are really out there. I don’t see why people couldn’t be more like Said and just say something in so many less words that it makes sense. The only part of this entire thing that I really understood pretty well was the subsection on China and the one on Historicism destroying the past. I mean what he is saying in this section is not only sad but true, in looking back at the past and working toward the future we are in essence getting rid of the past in a cultural sense and leaving only books. Without the flavor of the times we will have no idea what was really going on. Well it certainly was an interesting read, but to say the least I would love to see what others are saying about it and the in class discussion. The only outside thing I can think of that would encompass this would be the movie Pi (3.14) and how we are all interconnected and our actions affect everything in some way or another, well anyway I know it is a stretch but that is my reccomendation this week folks.