Postmodernism

“The postmodern condition is characterized by the co-existence of a multiplicity of heterogeneous discourses — a state of affairs assessed differently by different parties. Those who have a nostalgia for a unifying metanarrative — a dream central to the history of Western metaphysics — experience the postmodern condition as fragmented, full of…

“[What postmodernists] cannot imagine is a nontotalizing system or structure that nonetheless acts as a whole.”

— Mark C. Taylor, The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture