Do read...From Freddie

I found this article on the arts and letters daily website and I found it very interesting. Its about the current trend in academics to apply the word "complicate" to some theory or another as though it were a positive thing. In terms of our class and text, I fond that McKee somewhat simplifies the concepts of "postmodern" and "modern" by placing these terms in a simple binary...however talk to many academics and they'll scoff at binaries. This article discusses just that....that scholars are so resistant to simplifying that new catch words/phrases out there are "problematize" and "let me just complicate X or Y". I like McKee's approach because although I'll admit modernism and postmodernism are perhaps more complex than our discussion of it, I think McKee does a terrific job of putting forward some complex ideas and making them understandable. Once we've mastered the "binaries" then we can "problematize" them...but I say lets walk before we start jogging.

Have a read...I'd be interested to know what you folks think.

Oh and by the by...our blog is officially public. Some one responded to one of Davey's posts...some one not in 240!!!!!