In this challenging and controversial work, political theorist Somer Brodribb explains the foundations of recent postmodern theory and criticises and demystifies postmodernism.
Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
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This brave, brilliant (and funny!) book by a Canadian feminist is the antidote for intellectual toxicities caused by decentered deconstructionist detritus. The Plucky Wench of the Year Awards definitely goes to Brodribb, for proving the emperor has no clothes or brains.—Ms. Magazine (May/June 1993)
If one has any interest in 'postmodernism' whatsoever, Somer Brodribb's excellent Nothing Mat(t)ers is required reading.[...] Confronts the absence of the subject and privileging of the 'system' or structure over experience in postmodernism...This book needs to be read and pondered....—David Clippinger, Rain Taxi (1999)
What we need to escape, according to Brodribb, is not the body, but the dualistic thinking that finds its latest expression in postmodern anti-materiality. —Ellen Travis, Herizons (Winter 1993) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
About the Author
Somer Brodribb taught feminist theory and politics at the University of Victoria in the 1990s. Her experience of backlash is outlined in The Equity Franchise, CCLOW, Women's Education, 1996, and is the focus of Dorothy Smith's chapter Texts and Repression in Writing the Social, 1999. She published on organizing strategies and power. One of her best articles is about establishing a shelter: Winonah's RFR, 1988. She currently lives in England, and her short fiction has appeared in The Sandhopper Lover (2009), produced by the Welsh publisher, Cinnamon Press, online at Writers' Hub (2012), online at Notes from the Underground (2012) and in The French Literary Review, (2012).
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Postmodernists view de Beauvoir's work as hopelessly foundationalist (grounded in a theory of human nature) and transcended by Lacanian psychoanalysis. Read the first page
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Rambling, Pretentious Trash
July 3 2011
By Wal-Mart'Queisha Jenkins
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This book is impossible to read. It is verbose, inappropriately poetic, and sprinkled with foreign phrases that range from established literary garnish (fin-de-siècle) to random phraseology that prevents the comprehension of the sentence in which it squats: "Perhaps we should address the origin of the matter: pudenda origo." Whole paragraphs devoted to the recounting of various religious myths meander through the text to the extent that the point of their inclusion is lost.
The text was originally part of a dissertation, and the bloated, ostentatious writing style for which graduate humanities programs remain infamous is in full effect. It is to be expected that, lacking a certain level of acquaintance with postmodernist writings, most readers would find the the discussion of specific postmodern concepts challenging. The style of writing compounds this difficulty unnecessarily. Instead of summarizing concepts, the author repeatedly presents one or two paragraphs from a relevant text as block quotes. Ambiguity is introduced by the sloppy use of a slash to pack two meanings into one sentence: "Only Superman/Zarathustra can think the "'most abysmal thought.'" The actual points the author wishes to make are difficult to find amidst the history, mythology, and literature recitations. Numerous in-text quotes and references to obscure (non-postmodern) books and authors inhibit the flow of the writing.
In short, don't waste your money. This book is nothing but an exercise in which the author shows off her knowledge of everything she has ever read.
The text was originally part of a dissertation, and the bloated, ostentatious writing style for which graduate humanities programs remain infamous is in full effect. It is to be expected that, lacking a certain level of acquaintance with postmodernist writings, most readers would find the the discussion of specific postmodern concepts challenging. The style of writing compounds this difficulty unnecessarily. Instead of summarizing concepts, the author repeatedly presents one or two paragraphs from a relevant text as block quotes. Ambiguity is introduced by the sloppy use of a slash to pack two meanings into one sentence: "Only Superman/Zarathustra can think the "'most abysmal thought.'" The actual points the author wishes to make are difficult to find amidst the history, mythology, and literature recitations. Numerous in-text quotes and references to obscure (non-postmodern) books and authors inhibit the flow of the writing.
In short, don't waste your money. This book is nothing but an exercise in which the author shows off her knowledge of everything she has ever read.
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