ABSTRACT
Still living: Zygmunt Bauman and Frederick Jameson. Many who write about postmodern theory are not advocates (Best, Kellner), or have turned away (Bauman). Others seem to want to annihilate it (Habermas, Norris). Then there is a genre of post-postmodern theorizing that takes postmodern theorizing to task for erasing issues of class, race, gender and postcolonial theory (Calás and Smircich’s 1999 feminism, Sandoval’s 2000 ‘US Third World Feminism’; Smith’s 1999 indigenous critique of neocolonialism). Is there is a need for a new generation of post-postmodern theorists? Or does theorizing after postmodern simply mean it’s a fad that has faded?
