“Post-modern” sounds stupid when you first hear it, but David Meltzer describes it as the era that began on August 6, 1945. Using that definition, the word makes perfect sense.
What’s new is terrifying, what’s old is comforting, even if what’s old now was terrifying when it was new. Case in point; Born-again Christians embracing hip-hop.
I’ve travelled with people who seem ton think of London as the peak of developed civilisation. So whenever they encounter something different from the western urban sophisticated norm they consider it to be less developed and speculate on when it will be modernised. The implication is that places that are far away are also a long time ago.
On the other hand, people in rural areas also often seem to see themselves as backwards and fail to appreciate that diversity of culture and local, environmentally friendly life styles are important to our present state of development.
So no, I don’t think I agree with how Girl argues that time and space are similar. Or maybe I just don’t understand it.
Still, its nice to have a Cat and Girl that gets me thinking.
I used to think, in it’s early stages, that Cat and Girl was kind of post-modern, in an adorable apathetic-teen type of way.
But the last few years, Girl seems to have developed more of a leftist conscience…which makes it easier for me to relate to her, but now it feels like there’s an everyday partisan wedge between her and Cat. Like she’s the angry aspiring activist daughter and he’s the wry, curmudgeonly old father who thinks she’s being naive.
But maybe I’m just projecting what I see around me onto the strip. It’s still funny, anyways.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:13 am
Mine kept ticking through Cubism, but soon after melted and was devoured by ants.
Also, people who don’t wear watches and keep time with their cel phones need chains on their phones connected to their fob pocket.
March 9th, 2010 at 10:04 am
I agree about chains on cellphones. It would also prevent a lot of phone losses.
I have always been perplexed by the phrase “post-modern.” It seems to me as if that should be in the future.
March 9th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
“Post-modern” sounds stupid when you first hear it, but David Meltzer describes it as the era that began on August 6, 1945. Using that definition, the word makes perfect sense.
March 9th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
What does come after post-modern?
March 9th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Pre-futurism?
March 9th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Antidisestablishmentarianism.
March 10th, 2010 at 12:32 am
What’s new is terrifying, what’s old is comforting, even if what’s old now was terrifying when it was new. Case in point; Born-again Christians embracing hip-hop.
March 10th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
As a cell owner, I’ll have to think about the chain idea…
March 10th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
I’ve travelled with people who seem ton think of London as the peak of developed civilisation. So whenever they encounter something different from the western urban sophisticated norm they consider it to be less developed and speculate on when it will be modernised. The implication is that places that are far away are also a long time ago.
On the other hand, people in rural areas also often seem to see themselves as backwards and fail to appreciate that diversity of culture and local, environmentally friendly life styles are important to our present state of development.
So no, I don’t think I agree with how Girl argues that time and space are similar. Or maybe I just don’t understand it.
Still, its nice to have a Cat and Girl that gets me thinking.
March 10th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
If you’re in a cell, you don’t need to be chained. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they do it at Gitmo anyway.
BTW, is that a nuke going off in the 4th panel, or just a large conventional weapon? I don’t see a mushroom cloud.
March 10th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
I used to think, in it’s early stages, that Cat and Girl was kind of post-modern, in an adorable apathetic-teen type of way.
But the last few years, Girl seems to have developed more of a leftist conscience…which makes it easier for me to relate to her, but now it feels like there’s an everyday partisan wedge between her and Cat. Like she’s the angry aspiring activist daughter and he’s the wry, curmudgeonly old father who thinks she’s being naive.
But maybe I’m just projecting what I see around me onto the strip. It’s still funny, anyways.
March 14th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
As someone who has studied basic physics, I can quite safely say that time and space (i.e. distance/displacement) are two completely different things.
March 15th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
ajajajja excellent!
June 7th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
And the moral of the story is… modernism is a lame pretense to sell poorly made things to morons.