Introduction We live in a world filled with prophets, individuals who are dissatisfied with the way that things are and who articulate a new design for living that moves a people toward a preferred way of personal and communal existence; in other words, they engage in designing and fostering a revitalization movement within their respective [...]
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The lengthy material that follows is gathered from two sources, both by BEST and KELLNER, who are professors at the University of Texas, Austin — the title of their two books are POSTMODERN THEORY and THE POSTMODERN TURN — they are, in my opinion, the best two books on the POSTMODERN CONDITION and are a [...]
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The following material is from the technology and culture faculties of GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: NARRATIVES -MODERNITY…master narratives and meta-narratives of history, culture and national identity -POSTMODERNITY…suspicion and rejection of master narratives…instead there are local narratives and the deconstruction of master narratives GRAND THEORY -MODERNITY…faith in a GRAND THEORY, totalizing explanations in history, culture and science, to [...]
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THE POST-MODERN AGENDA is: (1) an intense concern for PLURALISM and RESPECT FOR LOCAL CULTURES resisting modernization (2) the desire to cut across different TASTE CULTURES which now fracture society with a new DOUBLE CODING (3) an acknowledgement of DIFFERENCE and OTHERNESS which those (such as the feminist movement) have brought to the forefront (4) [...]
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-the idea that THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE could be a new credible metanarrative…it certainly would replace humanism (man the measure of all things) with the larger picture in which THE COSMOS is the MEASURE OF ALL THINGS, giving direction, orientation, and meaning to human activity -because of physical laws such as gravity, and the [...]
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-in late 20th century a traditionally-garbed Bedouin can be found riding a camel across the desert while having, beneath his robes, a business suit, mobile phone and laptop computer -the most visible shift in the post-modern world is towards PLURALISM and CULTURAL ECLECTICISM -pluralism is mostly a by-product of COMMUNICATION and GLOBAL CAPITALISM…the globe has [...]
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-Charles Jencks, in his book POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE IN 1975, helped to define postmodernism within the academic community; twenty years later, in a series of lectures in Germany and America, he continued to refine his assessment of the POSTMODERN CONDITION in his 1996 book titled WHAT IS POST-MODERNISM — here are few notes from that book: [...]
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THE NATURE AND ORIENTATION OF ULTIMATE REALITY -there is no transcendent vantage point because God is either dead, indifferent, silent, or non-existent THE NATURE OF THE WORLD AROUND US -ruled by regimes of power and knowledge through which reason, during the period of modernity, classified and regulated all forms of experience -it is a simulated [...]
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