Week 1 & 2
Introduction to Assignment 2 Independent Study - Reading - What is 'Post - Modernism'? - In 1989 48 global intellectuals assembled at Boston University to debate a perplexing issue: What period do we inhabit? - The Age of Anxiety? The quantum age of Uncertainty? The Era of Space Exploration? - Metaphors which classify an age have much importance as national identity - The big question 'What era do we live?' - Moderns became conscious of time as a culturally creative force - Modernisation is irreversible - There is no way we can live like hunter-gathers, or even like villagers. - technical modernism, social modernity, cultural modernism there is no going back once been through. - since two-fiths of the world is now forced into the couch, might we not learn to cultivate this strength? - post modern has already chosen us - can the label find us? can the word find us? - 'Post Modern' has already chosen us - 1992 the british indepe...