Rival periodizing terms like globalism and postcolonialism describe no phenomena distinct from postmodernity

Evidence

However, though each term maps a particular space of the current conjuncture, and emphasizes crucial aspects of it, and though some of these terms are at odds with one another and, particularly, postcolonialism is at odds with some versions of postmodernism, none of these terms names or describes phenomena substantially different from those included in the understanding of postmodernism/postmodernity I develop here. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 962

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Worth interrogating: whether ‘globalism,’ ‘empire,’ or ‘neoliberalism’ genuinely add nothing that postmodernity does not already cover — a contestable reduction.
  • XREF: connects to: 1989 completed the sixties-era shift to postmodernity — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 963