From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context

TLDR

Postmodernism remains elusive and difficult to define, and my understanding of it has evolved over the past thirty years. The study investigates what postmodernism was and what it is today. Postmodernism appears as a persistent revenant that resurfaces whenever it is dismissed, reflecting changes in the concept, the author, and the world.

Abstract

What Was Postmodernism? What was postmodernism, and what is it still? I believe it is a revenant, the return of the irrepressible; every time we are rid of it, its ghost rises back. Like a ghost, it eludes definition. Certainly, I know less about postmodernism today than I did thirty years ago, when I began to write about it. This may be because postmodernism has changed, I have changed, the world has changed.