Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/The tyranny of Big Abortion/reply (29)

he was after modern. therefore "post modern". but really, my point was that is the time frame I start losing philosophy. I will admit i've not read Nietzsche much, just works about his works, so i'm not sure i get him or not. But I will read any of these 1920's and forward philosophiers and there is a good chance I walk away totally lost. I did ok with Bahktin and "othering", and understand "authorship" issues on their own (the individual authors writing about it, not withstanding), but the generic 20th century philo i've tried to read, confuses me.

As for Blue Velvet - that, too confuses me. It's... i sat there and said "huh?" I feel very, hum, intellectually "small" when I attempt to understand much of 20th century pursuits like "modern art", high literary play-writes, even cooking where the goal is to remove expectations and make a strawberry taste like fish. (molecular gastronmy i think is the term). Maybe I'm not abstract or creative enough? I don't know.