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But I am curious CLA, where does nihilism enter in. As I understand it, the word carries a sense of lethal indifference, barely short of catotonistic copescetism. If that were the case, any other descrrptors in conjection it would be void yes?
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Well, I don't quite mean nihilism as indifference, but you are right in one sense - a postmodernist idea is that definitions are fluid and have no fixed center (as opposed to solid, anchored definitions), hence the paradox of defining postmodernism, and why it is not quite right to use descriptors like anti-ontological etc. to define it.
One who I might call "post-postmodernist" is Slavoj Zizek. One of his big criticisms of postmodernism is that indeed, it is politically impotent. I think it might be fair to say that he sees an "indifferent" attitude in postmodern thinking. Interesting guy.
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