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_refugee_  ·  3671 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 5, 2014

Yay!

I think "post structuralism" in poetry would probably relate to the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and/or nonsense, and/or Dada-ist poets. Not too well read on those. Also, "de constructivist" performance pieces.

My general casual rule of thumb is that anything "post-" something else pretty much exists only to critique that other thing which invariably came before. With that in mind it becomes almost too easy to dismiss "post-" movements as "all commentary and no original, and therefore not as creative or interesting." Duchamps was a post-.

It also seems like a potentially lazy way that historians use to categorize a movement when they aren't quite sure what else to call it. So burn the label. - Dada would approve.