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A Beginner’s Guide To Post-Modernism
1 November 2010A brilliant spoof, from 2009, on post-modern polemics by someone named Gautama P, and no that isn’t me. It appeared on Rukun Advani’s blog, Ticklish Subject on 13 October 2009. Advani seems to have abandoned his blog, which is a shame because it has some lovely little nuggets. The post-modernism post: » moreThe following text may be read as (among many other things) a ready reckoner that any Postmodern (PoMo) subject may use to subvert the totalitarian, homogenizing discourse of a Liberal Humanist (LiHu) interlocutor. Seven polemic devices are provided - but these are by no means to be regarded as canonical.
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More From Rukun
12 December 2010More gems from Rukun Advani’s derelict (no design to speak of) and desolate (no comments, no updates) blog. In “Indian History from above and below”, Advani delivers two academic parodies (published by Kaloo for Men), swiping—and wiping—virtually all academic writing in the field of Indian history. “Walking over Woods on an Idle Evening, or, When a Tiger Becomes a Lie-On” is another spoof in which, incredibly, Tiger Woods meets Narendra Modi. Read on for extracts from the first. » more
