Postmodern Politics (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Tuesday, 24 August 2004

Postmodern Politics

I once described (off-handedly) Bill Clinton as the first postmodern president—and I think that was a pretty valid description, considering he managed to create public debate over the actual definitions of such straightforward words as “sex,” “is,” and “alone.” Today, Steve at Begging to Differ makes a pretty convincing case that postmodernism has pretty much taken over political discourse.

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