Theme 1: The Death of the
Subject
ÒThe modern and the Western
do not necessarily coincide and the present has many different, complex and
contradictory forces, projecting many different, uncertain futures. It is thisÉ
heterogeneity of the present – characterized by a multiplicity of É
conflicting cultural self/other relationships – which is foregrounded in
postmodernity.Ó
*Ang, Realm of
Uncertainty: 204 cited in
Grosswiler (1998: 165)