POSTMODERNISM: DESCRIPTIVE PRACTICES OF CULTURAL REFLECTION

Abstract

The problem of discreteness and continuity of time and space correlates with the problem of the whole and the general. If ontology is presented as a world of individual things, and metaphysical systems describe the world as a whole, then the philosophy of postmodernism questions and criticizes classical examples of the postulation of integrity. The result of such a worldview disposition is an existential-horizontal vector of goal-setting and expediency as such. The development, or rather, the "habitation" of space in time occurs as its marking - the establishment of marks, leaving traces and cartography. All the monumentality of culture is, thus, a sign-symbolic system that reformats the world in a human-sized format. The temporality of subjectivity is not only an existential tragedy, but also a sacred gift of an essential vision of things and phenomena. Even if in postmodernism this sacredness is legitimized by society and culture, not by the eternity of the universe.

Keywords

• postmodernism
• deconstruction
• simulacrum
• space
• time
• culture
• subjectivity
• sociality