ABSTRACT
Ever since postmodernism hit the cultural news-stand, it has been incessantly interrogated as to its politics. With its 'anything goes' pluralism and its delirious celebration of difference; with reality, according to Jean Baudrillard - to many, the 'high priest of postmodernism'- 'no longer what it used to be', what grounds remain for a politics, necessary to counter the widespread and manifest injustices that remain in our postmodern world? Surely any prospect of tackling endemic racism, the horrors of the military-industrial-entertainment complex, the obviously economically motivated, console-cowboy overkill of the Gulf War, religious and political persecution or Chinese tanks crushing the bodies of protesting students, is given up in advance by any movement that, like postmodernism, renounces the modern ideals of universal freedom, equality and rights, without proposing any alternatives?
