However, the logic of modern science reduces human agency as well. And if scientific knowledge of the modernist sort is grounded upon euro-centric, masculine desires to know, to control, to manage and to and command, postmodern critique opens the possibility that other voices can also be part of what little human agency is possible. Asian art, African poetry, Native American medicine, feminist literature and the culture of 'primitive' peoples gain stature in affirmative postmodern sensibility. In these past 50 years, entirely new findings about the behavior of complex systems add much to modern science logics of discovery. In brief, complex systems may exhibit any number of dynamical states.
Systems transform from linear to non-linear dynamics.
For deterministic chaos, this transformation is an elegant procession. And for non-deterministic chaos, such as is found in most social dynamics, efforts of human beings bring enough order upon which to ground knowledge processes in crime, suicide, revolution, bankruptcy and other less ordered behaviors. A knowledge process is thus possible. It adds much. And it locates the regions in which human agency is possible in ways not possible in either modern or pre-modern logic.