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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
lyotard's "the postmodern condition" makes a lot of commonplace points but summarizes this quite well, while managing to talk ass about science.
if i can cheapen these arguments with a swift summary think of modernism as ruled by the idea of progress. progress is the big narrative. hegel and marx having the notion of history reaching a final goal.
with postmodernism all faith in "great narratives" is lost-- especially, faith in progress. this relates a bit to the discussion on revolutions form the other thread. there is no progress, history is random, cultures interpenetrate, there is no "center", there so the project of modernity collapses and the avant-garde with it.
i hope this explanation doesnt suck, though im sure it oversimplifies. im working at the same time i post this. slackerdom...
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OK, that's pretty much what I thought you were getting at. I still have faith in progress - just because one practice ends doesn't mean another can't take its place. The project of modernity didn't collapse, it just ran its course.