This text may be freely shared among individuals, but it may not be republished in any medium without express written consent from the author and advance notification of the editors. Princeton UP, 1992. To analyze postmodernism, in Rosenau's mind, is to catalog it.
Postmodernism plays on the ambiguity, contradiction, and confusion of the text.
Rosenau falls victim to it. She mixes description and prescription, observer and observed, thinker, thought and thought-about in an eclectic and often bewildering catalog of postmodern opinion. In this period no social or political 'project' is worthy of commitment. Ahead lies overpopulation, genocide, atomic destruction, the apocalypse, environmental devastation, the explosion of the sun and the end of the solar system in 4.5 billion years, the death of the universe through entropy. More indigenous to Anglo-North American culture than to the Continent, the generally optimistic affirmatives are oriented toward process.