Introduction to Postmodernism

Author: Nato
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: There exists a functioning, ruthless global market in the world, which imposes the same pressures and contains the same values and meanings across the globe. In this "Introduction," the author focuses on the representative postmodernism. However, attention is also devoted to how postmodern perspectives transform into cultural research methods. We urgently need to gradually approach our issues in a way that can rival the efforts of the market, in a radically different manner. Postmodernists insist that reality is indeed just one, and as humans, we can only live within its multiple representations—or, to borrow the words of space enthusiasts, we live in parallel universes and realities, none of which can prove to be more "real" than the others—we need to pay attention to other voices. Dialogue, or more appropriately "dialogical"—it assumes not the distance between various voices within a rich, complex, and evolving context of cultural meaning and value, but their mutual permeation—allows the author to express dissent, showing that the struggle over the meaning of "postmodernism" is not only ongoing, but its position in our current "culture wars" also carries diverse implications.