pomo for dummies :)

The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 05 Sep 1998
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1094

Damien Broderick05 Sep 1998, 12:20original
< > What is "pomo"? There've been a number of references in
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the discussion of Eco and "The Name of the Rose".
Just an abreviation for "post-modern." Which, as near as I can tell from common usage can mean either "I don't understand it, but I like it," or "I don't understand it and I don't like it." -Rostrum > Advertisement: take a look at my Routledge book on sf textual strategies, READING BY STARLIGHT: POSTMODERN SCIENCE FICTION. Big emphasis on the work of Samuel R. Delany. Damien Broderick

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