{"id":64,"date":"2010-02-17T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2010-07-08T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T19:38:18","slug":"the-limits-of-postmodernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/17\/the-limits-of-postmodernism\/","title":{"rendered":"The limits of postmodernism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I reckon this is a really good idea right. Therefore there are three possibilities:<\/p>\n<p>1) I&#8217;m wrong it is a stupid idea.<\/p>\n<p>2) I&#8217;m right it is good but someone else had it ages ago.<\/p>\n<p>3) I&#8217;m right. Praise please.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of evidence lets assume they are all equally likely. What is the actual idea? Well, lets say that a central aspect of postmodernism is revealing process. i.e. you know there once was a man who wrote a blog by thinking of stuff. He&#8217;s called Raph. Hello etc. If that is the case then there is a fundamental limit to the degree to which the process can be revealed. This limit is that specified by G&ouml;del&#8217;s incompleteness theorem. You can put a mirror in front of a camera but still can&#8217;t see the back of the camera so need another mirror. That mirror then needs another mirror etc. If this is true then another of G&ouml;dels achievements will be to rubbish the current aesthetic and intellectual viewpoint. Postmodernists are forced to make their work either incomplete or inconsistent. Ha ha.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reckon this is a really good idea right. Therefore there are three possibilities: 1) I&#8217;m wrong it is a stupid idea. 2) I&#8217;m right it is good but someone else had it ages ago. 3) I&#8217;m right. Praise please. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/17\/the-limits-of-postmodernism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-stuffs-sic","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}