Postmodernity may be evolving toward its own dissolution
Evidence
The cracks in the mirror may not be too wide, and the fusions at the edges may not be too striking, but the fact that all are there suggests that the condition of postmodernity is undergoing a subtle evolution, perhaps reaching a point of self-dissolution into something different. But what? — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2224
Categorization
- QUESTION: Harvey leaves open what comes after postmodernity — he poses the question without answering it. Worth chasing what theorists have proposed since.
- XREF: connects to: The spectacular era is over; the medium dissolves into the real. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 110; Contemporary pop’s return to modernism may overcome the postmodernism it recycles — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 983; Postmodernism stopped being a cultural tendency and became all of culture — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2069