Postomodernism

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in contrast to it.
What are those features that are considered typical of the post-modern mode of life and thinking? According to Tuoma Takala in his theoretical article about business and leadership ethics these are:
• Multiplicity of meaning? Our social life is seen to be loaded with multiple meanings. There is not only one "right.
• Fragmented reality Our life is seen to consist of many fragmented parts, which do not have any interaction with each other. In modernism these interactions were clear and evident, but now the whole society is non-transparent and extremely difficult to understand.
• Simulation Lyotard has presented this concept of simulation rather well. "... There are presently more genuine things and objects, everything can be produced by artificial simulation processes, nothing is `the real thing"'. Everything is just copies, the slogan is: "Buy a copy, not an original". Life in virtual reality is now possible; who would need "real" reality?
Living without objective values? It is not possible to set such moral norms to any person according to which he ought to act. Everything is allowed.



Modernism/postmodernism distinctions
Robert F. White and Roy Jacques write much about this concept on a study called, Operationalising the postmodernity construct. According to that Distinctions between modernism and postmodernism are even more tenuous. Not only do these terms fluctuate from analyst to analyst, they have also changed substantially from one era to another. Habermas (1987), for instance, defines modernity in such a way that “postmodernity” can only be an oxymoron. He attempts to label the very idea of postmodernity as a neoconservative position posing as radical critique. Lyotard (1984) quite specifically describes the current state of knowledge in the most industrialized societies as post-modern. Hutcheon acknowledges, “postmodernism’s relation to modernism is…contradictory. It marks nei...