{"id":2523,"date":"2006-11-15T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T11:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2017-09-07T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:02:13","slug":"semi-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2006\/11\/semi-modernism\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-modernism"},"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> Postmoderns, Latour suggests, think they are still modern, but in fact they have greatly oversimplified the modern Constitution.  Postmoderns might emphasize the separation of subject and world, and stretch that opposition to a breaking point (Latour vividly describes them as doing the splits to keep subject and world apart); but in doing that, they forget the hidden \u201clower\u201d axis of modernity, where hybridization proliferates.  Or, postmoderns \u201crelish only in the hybrid character of free floating networks and collages \u2013 thus forgetting the upper half that same constitution,\u201d the move of \u201cpurification.\u201d   <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postmoderns, Latour suggests, think they are still modern, but in fact they have greatly oversimplified the modern Constitution. 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