{"id":1860,"date":"2006-02-22T18:59:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T18:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2017-09-07T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:04:07","slug":"postmodern-mathesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2006\/02\/postmodern-mathesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmodern mathesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> Modernity attempts to spatialize time, and to chart temporally shifting reality in a fixed mathesis.  So argues Catherine Pickstock at least.  But in this sense postmodernism is hypermodernism.  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