ABSTRACT
Of all the worlds in which we might expect to discover signs of postmodern life, those of science and technology seem the least probable. Even those feedlines from science into culture that seem the most suited to postmodernity’s climate, such as the renowned uncertainties of quantum physics, stem not from narratives, but from nature. If postmodernism is simply, as Fredric Jameson has it, a cultural affair, then the sciences, reading only the book of nature, are surely unaffected by any postmodern ‘loss of reality’1
