Postmodernity

Preface to the First Edition ix Preface to the Second Edition xi Introduction: Screen Replicants and Social Realities 1(5) Postmodernity: The History of an Idea 6(19) Modernity and its Discontnts 25(21) From Postindustrialism to Postmodernity 46(23) Consumerism and Beyond: The Shape(lessness) of Things to Come 69(21) Postmodernity, Fin de Millenaire and the Future 90(21) Notes 111(16) Index 127