ABSTRACT
These are, we are told, New Times: post-industrial, post-Fordist, postnarrative, post-Enlightenment, post-structuralist, post-class, post-class war, post-Cold War, post-post Second World War-in short, postmodern. Almost everyone agrees. We are at a moment of rupture. All previous certainties are in flux, old verities dishonoured. As our fingers slip from the handrail of History, we fall free of the past and into the postmodern. Almost everyone agrees. The unbelievable has happened: the clerks have reached a conclusion, and so has just about everything else.
