Holy Shit. Was it just Post-Post-Modernism, under my nose, the whole time??

My dear friends, such a crazy thing has happened. Another absolute breakthrough in regards to my examination of the PDX art scene. I think the breakthrough was hovering and waiting for me between the time I wrote about the nature of goodness in No Country for Old Men and read Heather Reddy's blog about selectively spying on herself.

While I blogged about Heather's piece, I didn't really, completely get why it engaged me so much. I felt the connections growing, but it wasn't until reading her piece aloud to maybe the fourth (Heather, you should be blushing by now) person, that I had a complete Eureka! moment.

Hmm... to be honest, the person I was reading it to said p-p-m first, but I felt my own strong eureka in any case...

If you have not been following along in the argument/theoretical extrapolation I'm having with myself and whoever I meet for coffee, here's the gist: I believe that PDX is in the midst of the next important artistic movement and I'm trying to identify similar themes in our work that reflect a common problem we are examining. In addition, I am looking for reflections in our art of our political, physical, moral, capitalistic and ethical environment.

Basically, what does this 'soup of the now' do for/to art and what are we trying to do in this soup?

Here's a lil' blurb from Identity Woman: indentitywoman.net. Not what I believe, per se, but pretty easy to consume.

"Modernism has its origins in the enlightenment, ‘rationalism’, absolute structure and finding ‘the truth’.

Post-Modernism is a critique to modernism. In this structure, there are no laws maintained to define hierarchical culture. Post-modernism that asserts that there no hierarchies and that all points of view are equally valid.

Today you have the emergence of Post-Post-modernism It rejects the “flat” - everything is equal point of view of of post-modernism but not super structured rationalism like Modernism. You might call it a Polyarchy.

Shit. This blog is becoming too long. I'm gonna stop here.

Let's leave it with this: I strongly disagree with her definition of Post-Post-Modernism...
XOXO
JB