"An eloquent work. Somer Brodribb not only gives us a feminist
critique of postmodernism with its masculinist predeterminants in
existentialism, its Freudian footholdings and its Sadean values,
but in the very form and texture of the critique, she literally
creates new discourse in feminist theory. Brodribb has transcended
not only postmodernism but its requirement that we speak in its
voice even when criticizing it. She creates a language that is at
once poetic and powerfully analytical. Her insistent and compelling
radical critique refuses essentialism--from both masculinist
thinkers and their women followers. She demystifies postmodernism
to reveal that it and its antecedents represent yet another mundane
version of patriarchal politics. Ultimately Brodribb returns us to
feminist theory with the message that we must refuse to be
derivative and continue to originate theory and politics from the
condition of women under male domination."
--Kathleen Barry, author of "Female Sexual Slavery"
An iconoclastic work brilliantly undertaken . . . "Nothing
Mat(T)ers" magnificently shows that postmodernism is the cultural
capital of late patriarchy. It is the art of self- display, the
conceit of masculine self and the science of reproductive and
genetic engineering in an ecstatic Nietzschean cycle of
statis."
--Andre Michel
"Nothing Mat(T)ers" encapsulates in its title the valuelessness
of the current academic fad of postmodernism. Somer Brodribb has
written a brave and witty book demolishing the gods and goddesses
of postmodernism by deconstructing their method and de-centering
their subjects and, in the process, has deconstructed
deconstructionism and decentered decentering! Thisis a long-awaited
and much-needed book from a tough- minded, embodied, and
unflinching scholar."
--Janice Raymond
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