Review
"The Postmodern Adventure is an impressive work essential for anyone seeking to critically engage the world's complexity with renewed vocabulary, cultural pedagogy, and philosophy. The volume is recommended also to those concerned about the interface of science, technology, and the electronic media with cultural and anthropological issues."--American Studies International "The authors' ambition leads them to write breathlessly--but clearly--in an episodic style that leaps from literature to war, to science and technology, to human evolution, and to globalization with far more assertion and suggestion than argument....As a book encouraging its readers to read and think about the authors and issues they discuss, it commendable."--Choice
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Book Description
Massive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnology are heralding the transformation from the modern to the postmodern age. We are confronted with altered modes of work, communication, and entertainment; new postindustrial and political networks; novel approaches to warfare; genetic engineering; and even cloning. This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the success of Best and Kellner s two previous books: Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field, and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments in the arts, politics, science, and theory. In The Postmodern Adventure, Best and Kellner analyze a broad array of literary, cultural, and political phenomena--from fiction, film, science, and the Internet, to globalization and the rise of a transnational image culture. They use the best of modern and postmodern perspectives to illuminate contemporary life and to strive for a just and viable future.
