Kevin is surely correct that not everything associated with PoMo is 
silly.  (At least) part of the problem is that there are more 
variants of PoMo than you can shake the proverbial stick at. 
 
Lyotard's conception of a "totalizing discourse" is useful.   
Neoclassicism is an attempt at such.  (I just received a flyer 
for URPE's RRPE wherein Heilbroner notes "Mainstream economics in 
America suffers from one weakness, possibly a fatal one.  It 
believes it is unchallengeably right.") 
 
On the other hand, PoMo CAN be silly.  An amusing take on this is 
David Hesla's "Postmodernism's Weighty Language" in _Soundings_ 
(Summer/Fall 1992, pp. 215-224). 
 
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