Self-conscious modernity

Self-conscious modernity February 7, 2006

Postmodernity is from one angle modernity coming to self-consciousness. Managerialism is as much at the heart of modernity as of postmodernity, but postmoderns know they are being managed. As a result, management is always shot through with irony. How can we take the wizard seriously after the curtain has been pulled back to reveal the fat bald guy running the smoke machine?


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