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From Gutenberg to Gates Footnote, Postmodernism That is, a tendency toward ironic playfulness and a self-conscious awareness of systems of power; the coupling together of unexpected forms or ideas; the idea that language, by its very nature, cannot express what we would like it to; the idea that all selves (as in Freud) are necessarily fractured; a tendency to view truth as relative; and, in some forms of postmodernism, a less optimistic (and certainly less utopian) hope for positive societal change than in earlier schools of thought. |