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Tue Oct 12 13:43:43 CDT 1999
Paul Mackin schrieb:
> Has postmodernism perhaps run its course? I notice in architecture at
> least 'postmodern' tends to get omitted. Is there something newer out
> there that looks at all promising? What was the latest book published with
> postmodernism in its title? Marxists are apt to be still be speaking
> of "late capitalism." The alternative might be "later capitalism."
What about "late modernity"? Since "postmodernism" is only another way of
observing the consequences of functional differenciation, it is a pure
semantic, not a structural phenomenon. In this sense Luhmann speaks of the "so
called postmodernity".
Best, Kai
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