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> Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years with no discernible movement coalescing to replace it. I think transmodernism is pretty c
by Alex3917 11y ago
> Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years with no discernible movement coalescing to replace it.
I think transmodernism is pretty clearly on track to win right now. Just look at the rapid increase in states legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational purposes.
- urschrei 11y agoPostmodernism was never alive in the sense to which the parent refers. Now that we've neatly rejected the premise of that comment, let's move on: nobody cares or knows about transmodernism, or any other literary movement (be it imaginary, as — in the case of transmodernism — or otherwise) The days in which a movement could be dominant are long past us. That's sort of the point.
- Alex3917 11y agoTransmodernism isn't a literary movement, and no one needs to know what it is for it to become the dominant intellectual paradigm.
- nitrogen 11y agoIt's easy to say you've figured out what everyone is doing if you just introduce a term and define it as "what everyone is doing".
- HillaryBriss 11y agoPretty much no one is into Monstransmodism, which is why it will inevitably garner majority mindshare. (And therefore has already triumphed -- and pre-receded. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.)
- Alex3917 11y agoExcept for that I didn't introduce the term...