pomo for dummies  :)
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 05 Sep 1998
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Damien Broderick — 05 Sep 1998, 12:20

< > What is "pomo"?  There've been a number of references in

> 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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