Postmodernity

Thomas Kaiserfeld
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Thomas Kaiserfeld: Lund University

Chapter 13 in Beyond Innovation: Technology, Institution and Change as Categories for Social Analysis, 2015, pp 111-118 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Postmodern thinking may be derived from cybernetics and systems theory, where ideas of hybridity between technological and social thinking are common. Views on the merging of technologies and institutions thus to some extent rely on reflexivity. One consequence has been hopes for emancipation through new technologies such as computers for communication and information management leading to visions of closer links between technologies, institutions and individuals. These visions have resulted in postmodern experiences of increased heterogeneity as well as a reaction to modernity, for instance, in terms of social acceleration and fractalization.

Keywords: acceleration; cyborg; fractalization; hybridization; information system; postmodernity; space compression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137547125_13

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