It brought play and humor , no small contribution. Postmodernism puts the recognition of the ungrounded variety of assumptions first . Although always recognized, the problem appeared only at the periphery. Or it might be tucked in, half-hidden, for the benefit of those who already recognize it. That is a question we will take up another time.
Many people sense that there is somewhere further to go.
Yes, every assertion is made from some vantage point, and depends at least partly on culture, politics, and language, which we can only pretend to control. All assertions seem to pretend to control. For the most part it results in arbitrariness, stoppage, an inability to think further. Overcoming this effect is the topic of our conference. We want to think further, to begin a discourse that moves on, after postmodernism.