You're so post-modern By Sarina Martinez (04/21/10 23:18:14)
In this reading the most interesting idea was the inconsistencies of the post-modern framework. It was interesting that there was a disconnection with the purity and "simplicity" of wildlife that was celebrated and the move away from simplicity. Modernity was about boiling things down to its simplest for and getting to the essence. Post-modernity was about keeping those extras, keeping the details because it is in the details that we find the diversity.
I believe there was a dislike for the domesticated pet because they all had become so standardized. There has become a prescribed lifestyle for all the domestic animals. Whether its the small toy yorkie that wears sweaters and travels in a purse or the bounding Lab that fetches tennis balls, there is a pretty standard life that can be predicted. What we get from wildlife is the unpredictable. They are the untouched, the genuine and pure example of an animal.
| The Postmodern Animal (Book) |
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