It's interesting, isn't it, that postmodernism as an approach to a creative process still has a lot of life in it (and will probably never go away), but that as an approach to academic processes... it's a bit like shoulder pads, ill-advised electronic music and Margaret Thatcher, no?
Exactly. I don't really know what to call what's going on in most of academia at this point, except in many areas 'capitulation to neoliberalism', because I'm a discipline, Asian studies, that's always sort of marched to its own drumbeat so I'm doing more or less exactly the sort of stuff that, for example, Doris Bargen was doing twenty and thirty years ago, only with a slightly different kind of critical theory, but postmodernism seems to have kind of gone out with Jacques Derrida's natural lifespan if not somewhat before (I tend to think somewhat before, actually) in most of the fields with which I'm at all familiar.
