Review
"Readers will recognize in Best and Kellner's project of analysis and prophecy the one Pynchon undertook a quarter-century earlier, with many of the same internal contradictions--and "that" is life for you."--"Pynchon Notes"
""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 is commendable."--"Choice"
Product 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 approac