The terms by which authority, knowledge, selfhood, reality and time are conceived have been altered, suddenly and forever. somewhere in the late 1990s or early 2000s, the emergence of new technologies re-structured, violently and forever, the nature of the author, the reader and the text, and the relationships between them.
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*pseudo-modern cultural products cannot and do not exist unless the individual intervenes physically in them. TV Internet etc pseudo-modernism defines the real implicitly as myself, now, ‘interacting’ with its texts.pseudo-modernism’s typical intellectual states are ignorance, fanaticism and anxiety https://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond