so hitch up your rig to the hitching post & wonder why you wander into modernity & beyond ... so maybe its not really postmodern but neo-modern .... remember Matrix ... & Neo ... so "NEO Lives, long live Neo"
Back in 1988, my first year on the faculty at the University of Montana -- my first post-PhD posting -- I joined the local academic 'Salon refuse" or outsiders clique to help put together the First North American Conference on Jean Baudrillard, with the man himself as our guest of honor, keynote speaker, etc., Baudrillard was not then well known in America outside of a thin line of postmodern / post structural-ists ... The conference was a rip roaring success from an international academic standpoint, but earned us permanent "beyond the pale" status within the oldschool muddy boots crowd of UM faculty & administrators. Why was that? First they felt alienated from the language of POMO & post structuralism, since structuralism was still barely known & under a cloud of suspicion ... it came from Europe!!! & was not even something sanctified by being ideas from old dead white guys ... Then too, we had a wonderful eclectic crowd who came from all over North & South America as well as Europe to meet & greet Baudrillard in his first North American conference & first conference to be held on his work / ideas ... a bunch of strange looking foreigners in Montana ... call out the militia ... invasion ... Anyway, we formed an editorial committee to select & publish works from the conference, the initial idea to use them as a starting point for a journal of Baudrillard studies ... which I tongue in cheek coined "Hitching Post Modern" a kind of referent to the old west that lives in Montana ,,, & which had now met Eurothink pomo ideas ... well other committee members had other ideas, especially when Minnesota UP wanted to publish a book, which they would get to edit & put feathers in their hats in a publish or perish academic war dance ... ... But I still like the idea of a hitching post hitched to modern or post modern ... hmmm hitching post post modern ?
Back in 1988, my first year on the faculty at the University of Montana -- my first post-PhD posting -- I joined the local academic 'Salon refuse" or outsiders clique to help put together the First North American Conference on Jean Baudrillard, with the man himself as our guest of honor, keynote speaker, etc., Baudrillard was not then well known in America outside of a thin line of postmodern / post structural-ists ... The conference was a rip roaring success from an international academic standpoint, but earned us permanent "beyond the pale" status within the oldschool muddy boots crowd of UM faculty & administrators. Why was that? First they felt alienated from the language of POMO & post structuralism, since structuralism was still barely known & under a cloud of suspicion ... it came from Europe!!! & was not even something sanctified by being ideas from old dead white guys ... Then too, we had a wonderful eclectic crowd who came from all over North & South America as well as Europe to meet & greet Baudrillard in his first North American conference & first conference to be held on his work / ideas ... a bunch of strange looking foreigners in Montana ... call out the militia ... invasion ...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, we formed an editorial committee to select & publish works from the conference, the initial idea to use them as a starting point for a journal of Baudrillard studies ... which I tongue in cheek coined "Hitching Post Modern" a kind of referent to the old west that lives in Montana ,,, & which had now met Eurothink pomo ideas ... well other committee members had other ideas, especially when Minnesota UP wanted to publish a book, which they would get to edit & put feathers in their hats in a publish or perish academic war dance ...
... But I still like the idea of a hitching post hitched to modern or post modern ... hmmm hitching post post modern ?