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The word postmodernism , for better or worse, has entered everyday discourse. Applied everywhere, it as acquired an authority to describe a variety of concerns—culture, critiques of culture, architecture, video, music, the penchant for economic forecasts and marketing research, new therapies,... read more

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The last few years have been marked by an inverted millenarianism in which premonitions of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by senses of the end of this or that (the end of ideology, art, or social class; the "crisis" of Leninism, social democracy, or the welfare state, etc., etc.); taken together, all of these perhaps constitute what is increasingly called postmodernism.

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  1. Fredric Jameson (Author)
 

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