January 20, 2006
Expanding on the I-Word
In the late 1990s, a colleague's reference to my having given a "postmodern" talk triggered a brief obsession with figuring out what that word (and postmodernism) had come to mean. I concluded that they were being used so promiscuously and showing up in so many contexts (I even found a recipe for neo-postmodern pupu platters) that they had lost their specificity and might soon be devoid of utility. Do we have any terms today in a similar situation? Although they haven't yet made it into
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