From Bauman’s and Bordoni’s State of Crisis:
Postmodernism has gone. Its life cycle has come to an end, its role as ferry man finished. . . Postmodernity is a transition between modernity and the new stage that does not yet have a name, though it’s essential features are already beginning to take shape.
So we’ve gone through modernity, traveled through the transition away from modernity, and have arrived at something newer still which we don’t have a name for just yet.
And now imagine the desperation and the terror of people who haven’t even managed fully to process modernity when everybody else has already moved on to something altogether different. Don’t go too far, we all know somebody like this.
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I think there are a lot of people who haven’t even managed fully to process Enlightenment, and still worship feudalistic traditions.
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Yes, exactly, and they are very likely to lash out in rage against the world that has become too confusing for them.
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I had to do all that transitional stuff in a huge hurry. The reason I opposed postmodernism is not that I was dragging my feet, but to the contrary that it was not a swift enough bridging mechanism for me. I needed something more drastic like shamanism.
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A professor and blogger whose name escapes me has a good word for this in-between time. “Interregnum.” As in the time between the reign of two monarchs. He talks about the interregnum in terms of political, economic, and social norms, which are in the process of changing at the present time. (Possibly they are always in the process of change.)
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Maybe we are losing metaphysics and gaining organic realism.
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I need to read that new book. From your quotes it seems that their claims are pretty vague. Do they even mention hyper or supermodernity here?
Aglaonika and you are right: many people have not processed the Enl. yet.
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I only read to about the middle of the book. The main claim is that modernity is dead and we have arrived at something completely new. If you see modernity as a transitional era, then it does make sense that it would end at some point. Of course, it is curious to see Bauman echo Fukuyama without wanting to.
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Oh, but post-post-modernity has raised its ugly head to mutter something insincerely post-ironic?
Whatever. 🙂
THERE’S A QUANGO STALKING ME MAKE IT STOP [sinister grin]
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