afterology

is a paralyzing fear of structure, which manifests in such things as post-modernism and postcolonialism.

adopted from Jacqueline Mraz to describe . . .Sahlins refers to a 'paralysing fear of structure'. . . .At the turn of the twenty-first century, Marshall D. Sahlins diagnosed the discipline of anthropology as suffering from a 'paralysing fear of structure' (Sahlins 1999:399). Various forms of 'afterology' (postmodernism, postcolonialism, etc.), he states, assume morally appropriate attitudes with respect to colonialism or racism, for example, but instead of facilitating the understanding of other cultures would rather make 'cultural logics disappear' (ibid.: 406). (Peter Berger Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 134 (2009) 1-27 / 2009 Dietrich Reimer Verlag) . . . [Sahlins, Marshall D. 1999: Two or three things that I know about culture. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5 (3): 399 421]

afterology, n.All

afterology