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Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Post Modern Politics

The main symptom of post modern politics is this idea that politics is a personal issue, says the writer. "We're just individual actors floating in space with no real connective tissue," he adds. And so politics becomes 'an arena for affirming our personal individual identity' But it also undermines the basis of a genuinely collective project,. and that's kind of what politics is supposed to be, right? This tension is problematic."

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