postmodern condition

is a way of describing this world in which established but unstable institutions are rapidly generating emergent forms of diversity.

This world of established but unstable institutions rapidly generating emergent forms of diversity has defined the social conditions of a postmodernity for which the ethos, at least, of postmodernism as a style of knowledge production is particularly appropriate. Both in revealing the conditions of postmodernity and in enacting them, postmodernist writing has been a seductively attractive mode for defining radical, contemporary cultural criticism.

is able to be summed up by the term ‘game' which allows the critic to marginalize playfulness as perverted or decadent, asocial or simply silly and to consolidate it in the higher order synthesis of the critical text.

The term ‘game' sums up the postmodern condition. It allows the critic to marginalize playfulness as perverted or decadent, asocial or simply silly and to consolidate it in the higher order synthesis of the critical text.41

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postmodern condition