Gene Koo on Wikipedia and postmodern truth
Posted on April 7th, 2008
Nice post today by Gene Koo about Wikipedia’s view of truth in a postmodern world. A social process replaces the simple one-to-one relationship which we used to think “knowing” was. Something like that.
Categories: everythingIsMiscellaneous, knowledge
Stanley Fish had an interesting column in the NYT yesterday. Reading Koo’s post I see he links to it! But then he turns his own post into a sort of light-minded soufflé, finessing or foregoing the rigor of “cultural competence” and mediated understanding for the NPOV.
I was inspired to enjoy the Fish piece immediately when he observed:
It was in sometime in the ’80s when I heard someone on the radio talking about Clint Eastwood’s 1980 movie “Bronco Billy.” It is, he said, a “nice little film in which Eastwood deconstructs his ‘Dirty Harry’ image.”
That was probably not the first time the verb “deconstruct” was used casually to describe a piece of pop culture, but it was the first time I had encountered it, and I remember thinking that the age of theory was surely over now that one of its key terms had been appropriated, domesticated and commodified.
Fish backs off then and suggests that theory remained interesting into the 90’s, but somehow I clicked forward — as one does — from Fish to Martha Nussbaum and was reminded that there was plenty of light at the end of that tunnel and one may bask in it today.
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