book: the postmodern condition

September 18, 2006

Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.  Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Theory and History of Literature. Eds. Wlad Godzich and Jochen Schulte-Sasse. Vol. 10. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
This classic is another book that I need to make time to read. I’m not sure it’ll directly relate to my project, but I plan on taking it on my vacation just-in-case. Lyotard argues that we are living in a postmodernist age. In this time, there is an “incredulity towards meta-narratives.” In postmodern though, these grand narratives are too broad to contain everyone, and lose the details. Postmodernists are aware of difference and diversity and realize that these cannot be contained in meta-narratives. What are the implications for online behavior? (Particularly given Turkle’s windows)

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