{"id":68,"date":"2008-08-30T23:08:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T03:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-08-30T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T03:08:22","slug":"while-slow-soaking-my-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/archives\/68","title":{"rendered":"While slow soaking my tomatoes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I sat on my small porch that has been taken over by my tomatoes, herbs, lettuce and broccoli (my attempt at a gardening in an apartment), I was slow soaking my tomatoes (the best way to water them), and reading White Noise <\/em>(while underlining and making notes in what I forgot was a library book).\u00a0 I finished Chapter Six and remember thinking – that it was probably the most post-modern thing I’ve come across.\u00a0 But then I had to think about why.\u00a0 And here’s what I’ve come up with…<\/p>\n

In the conversation about rain between Heinrich and Jack, Heinrich continually response with questions to the questions that his father puts forth.\u00a0 “What truth does he want?\u00a0 What good is my truth?\u00a0 Is there such a thing as now?\u00a0 How do I know that what you call rain is really rain?\u00a0 What is <\/em>rain anyway?”\u00a0 It is a constant challenge to the power of language, symbolism,\u00a0 and the weight of an idea if looked at as a subjective thought and not\u00a0a concrete reality.\u00a0 But I don’t think that captures all of it.\u00a0 I think it is part of understanding that the not knowing, the “only guessing” is postmodern in and of itself.\u00a0 It is in part why Huyssen took a “different route” in his essay “Mapping the Postmodern” and did “not attempt here to define what postmodern is,”<\/em>\u00a0 and instead decided to discuss the\u00a0characteristics of the phases of postmoderism because of the limitations of language.\u00a0 He concluded that it is moving beyond the binaries and into the tension between them (much like we discussed in class), that there is a breakdown in what is what.\u00a0 Or maybe the conversation is more easily linked to the discussion of Plato’s “simulacrum” in the Jameson essay as an example of\u00a0a\u00a0“culture of the simulacrum (that) comes to life in a society where exchange value has been generalized to the point at which the very memory of use value is effaced.”\u00a0 Heinrich voices this idea in a way that captures some what I’ve come in the last week to think of as post-modern.\u00a0 A kind of blurred feeling out of gray areas, and an expression of only guessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I sat on my small porch that has been taken over by my tomatoes, herbs, lettuce and broccoli (my attempt at a gardening in an apartment), I was slow soaking my tomatoes (the best way to water them), and reading White Noise (while underlining and making notes in what I forgot was a library … Continue reading While slow soaking my tomatoes…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,26,9,16,20],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-1","tag-art","tag-heinrich","tag-jameson","tag-real","tag-white-noise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}