(Post)modernity is weird. You know it, I know it. But we seem to ignore it, feeling, I assume, that we can’t do anything about this unbelievable weirdness. (Aside: I know some people don’t like the term “postmodernity”—I’m thinking about you, Scott Dodge!—but I find it useful. Think of it as modernity + the internet. Because the internet has changed everything.) Probably starting with nominalism and traversing through the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, the sexual revolution...
Published on December 01, 2018 13:02