Postmodernity and the globalisation of technoscience

the computer, cognitive science and war

John Bowers

pp. 111-126

in: Joe Doherty, Elspeth Graham, Mo Malek (eds), Postmodernism and the social sciences, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1992

Abstract

In spite of the most devout hopes of many cynics, the allure of postmodernism and the problems that are attendant upon this term and its cognates — postmodernity, postmodern, "postie" — is undiminished. The salon lizards of theory — to adapt Margolis's (1989) dig — are yet to move en masse to any newer, more attractive fad. Indeed, since 1984, with the publication in English of Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984a), and the fullest version of Jameson's often reworked "Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism" (1984), there has been a proliferation of theorisations of postmodernity and suggestions for practice.

Cited authors

Lyotard Jean-François