Postmodern World

"A world that does not know how to define itself by what it is, only by what it has just now ceased to be." -Stephen Toulmin, Philosopher of Science on Postmodernism

The World we live in today can seem so unfamiliar, even to the people who are currently living in it. "Experts" have named this reality the Postmodern world, experts being the authors, theorists, globalists and psychologist who study the Anthropology of the civilized world.  According to Author Walter Anderson, the look and shaping of postmodernism is in three parts; in the introduction to his book, "Reality Isn't What It Used to Be." The first part is "the breakdown of old ways of belief," the transition from traditional "American Values" to moral reasoning. Next,  Anderson says "the second process is the emergence of polarization," conflicting the inhabitants  of the postmodern world with the question, what is the right things to do? Finally, Anderson says "the third process is the birth of a global culture.... globalization," a world where "belief systems look around and become aware of all other belief systems."

 

"Inside its margins: you. Beyond its flexy surface: everything else," says author Andrea Jones in her essay "Identity's Edge," a description of the human membrane, skin. Her depiction of the membrane acts as the inner you to the rest of the world around you. In Today's world, technology has extended that skin from you to literally the REST OF THE WORLD!!! Blogger, Facebook, my cellphone, everything i put into these machines, comes out the other end and is visible to anyone who looks my name up. We may just live in one place, but our identities are spread across the ENTIRE WORLD. Author Walter Anderson says that, "each of us posses our own truth," our own belief that we hold tightly to our identities. The beauty of the internet is that this global phenomenon of Postmodernism and globalization allows us to view others beliefs and be consumed by other cultures from the confines of our homes. Technology is our skin and globalization is the effect