is a brilliant article on this controversial topic.
Abstract: In this paper the claim that the advanced market economies have entered a new era of postmodernity (or a postmodern turn) is critically asessed and found to be unjustified by the changes at the economic, political, cultural, or scientific and theoretical levels of the last quarter of a century or so. These changes in no way reflect a kind of break with the past, similar to the one marking the transition from the 'traditional' society to modernity. It is therefore argued that advanced market economies, following the collapse of liberal modernity in the 19th century and that of statist modernity (in both its versions of social democracy and Soviet statism) in the 20th century, have in fact entered a new form of modernity that we may call neoliberal modernity, rather than a postmodernity. Neoliberal modernity represents a synthesis of the previous forms of modernity and at the same time completes the process which began with the institutionalisation of the market economy and representative 'democracy' that have been presently universalised in the form of the internationalised market economy and the developing supra-national forms of governance respectively.
(...) from: "Democracy and Nature" (D&N). The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy. Volume 7, number 1, 2001.
http://www.democracynature.org This is a brilliant, insightful issue and very much worth reading! See other articles are:
"The Retreat from Autonomy: Post-modernism as Generalised Conformism" by Cornelius Castoriadis
"Post-modernism as the Decadence of the Social Democratic State" by Arran Gare
"Dawns, Twilights, and Transitions: Postmodern Theories, Politics, and Challenges" by Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
"Post-Marxism, Democracy and the Future of Radical Politics"
by Simon Tormey
"Can Groups Have Rights? What Postmodern Theory Tells Us About Parcipatory Democracy in the Era of Identity Politics"
by David Ingram
"Postmodern Cinema and Hollywood Culture in an Age of Corporate Colonization" by Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard
"Are Authors Authored? Cultural Politics and Literary Agency in the Era of the Internet" by Ben Agger
Review Article: How can we end the End of Politics? A Review of "The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere" by Carl Boggs
Reviewer: Tim Duvall.
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