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Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is the Internet a Kind of Post Modern Dream?

It's customary now to say that post modernism is deadd it is. But i also think the dream we were sold, and the dream th a lot of people brought into it in the early years, was that it's a place of fulfilment. Sibe spaces, or virtual world's a where you can become something other than you are. You know, rember when second life first came out, thinking, this could be kind of liberatiory. That's the sort of liberation that people like de los are hono about.

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