Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Contemporary social theory currently remains at a virtual standstill, quivering over the decision to radically leave the past behind or to continue within the historical narrative of the Enlightenment. Postmodern social theorists, advocating the position that we have, in fact, entered a new historical epoch, pose serious challenges to our perception of modernity and cultural identity. As an influential strategy that has infiltrated both the humanities and the social sciences for more than thirty years, postmodernism can no longer be dismissed as merely a fad or trend. In a world where the use of complex, and often mobile, communication technologies have become the norm, questions concerning cultural identity, space, and time are at the forefront of interdisciplinary debates. Regardless of whether we have or have not crossed the "postmodern divide," we need an appropriate methodology for analyzing, conceptualizing, and theorizing the uses of contemporary technological products and their relationship to the construction of group and individual identities.
Repository Citation
Borer, Michael I.. "The Cyborgian Self: Toward a Critical Social Theory of Cyberspace." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 3, 2002, pp. 1–20. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss3/10
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