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The Day the World Changed: A Pomo Primer

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This paper begins with a famous comment by Virginia Wolfe about the world changing “on or about December, 1910” when, she argued, modernist thought became dominant and changed human relations. My paper suggests that postmodernism begins in the Sixties, offers a definition of postmodernism taken from the French scholar, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and contrasts modernism with postmodernism. It offers an analysis of Disneyland as a postmodern entertainment and concludes with a discussion of whether postmodernism is now passé and has been succeeded by something else—namely post-postmodernism.

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    Arthur Asa Berger

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Berger, A.A. The Day the World Changed: A Pomo Primer. Soc 49, 317–322 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-012-9554-8

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