If we tune in carefully, we can detect this growing desire for authenticity all around us. ... A culture of care is advertised and celebrated and cherished. Values are important once more: the values that the artist puts into the making of an object as well as the values that the consumer takes out of the object. And all of these striven-for values are separate to the naked commercial value.
another blogger, that quotes an article by alan kirby who also said postmodernism is dead in a 2006 article in philosophy now, says:
We've moved into a new phase of society. One that emphasizes participation in culture and society and and technology and politics. If it weren't such a mouthful, I'd suggest we call it participatism.
and the wikipedia entry on post-postmodernism (supposedly there is such a thing lol) says:
a common positive theme of current attempts to define post-postmodernism is that faith, trust, dialogue, performance and sincerity can work to transcend postmodern irony.
after reading these articles my thought was that these quotes in particular sound much like what those of us in the emerging conversation have been saying for awhile now. so no, i don't think postmodernism is dead--it's only getting started although it may end up being called something else--but what we may be seeing is more of how the emerging conversation has already been responding in the midst of it with authenticity, dialogue, participation etc. i admit i'm not sure about irony; we probably employ irony as well. i see the fact that others outside the emerging conversation are responding to postmodernism in a similar fashion as a hopeful thing.
what do you think? is postmodernism dead? or is it just out of the gate? is what we are seeing a response in the midst of it or the next big thing?
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