ABSTRACT
Post modernism (POMO, henthforth) is dead, supposedly. Dinosaurs are dead too, except they are not, from an evolutionary point of view. If you look up to the sky, squint your eyes and peer into the trees in the forest, or contemplate the life of a lamppost in the city, you will see dinosaurs gliding, hopping, pecking, flapping, stooping and swooping their way in the world. You will see that dinosaurs are very much still around and everywhere. That is because birds are dinosaurs, or to be more accurate, birds are descendants of dinosaurs. Similarly, we see POMO’s multiplicity of representations in every field of intellectual discourse. One needs to look no further than POMO’s predecessor, modernism, to verify the tricky proposition of making premature declarations of death. Modernism, and, by proxy, positivism, whose own supposed death was the precursor to the rise of POMO, is still ubiquitous and alive in institutions to this day. Modernism has left its fingerprints all over educational philosophy, and moreover, continues to guide policy and implementation in its image. It’s also interesting to note that postmodernism itself commented on this sort of messy state and status of existence when it invoked ideas of chaos, complexity, irony, uncertainty, unpredictability, out-of-controlness, and general ontic and epistemic multiplicity and plurality. As well, by declaring that it lives only in the moments, POMO escapes any accusatory claims that it has outlived its tenure of a historical period.
