What Makes us Postmodern?

What makes us postmodern? Do we live in a psychological condition of postmodernity? Is postmodernism everywhere? The sociologist Anthony Giddens described living in the modern world as being ‘more like being aboard a careering juggernaut rather than being in a carefully controlled and well-driven motor car.’

Through the work of Zygmunt Bauman and his 'Postmodernity and its Discontents' I look at concepts like control, planning, metanarratives, values, pessimism, schizophrenia, and consumerism.

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Sources:

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity

Anthony Giddens, Runaway World

Dennis Smith, Zygmunt Bauman, Prophet of Postmodernity

Zygmunt Bauman, Postmodernity’s Discontents

David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity

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Anthony Giddens Photo, Szusi, CC BY-SA 3.0 ,http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b..., via Wikimedia Commons

Zygmunt Bauman Photo, re:publica from Germany, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons