Thirty years reflection upon postmodern thought : Personal Reflection
When i was studying psychology in third semester in mid 1991, I attended a one day seminar on postmodern thought in PAU IS at University of Indonesia ,at that moment i was amazing on postmodern thought because that‘s really new one for me.
One major themes on postmodern thought that elaborated at that seminar was postmodern character .
First , postmodern is the third stage of sign, the sign has become reality or hyperreality as Jean Baudrillard ,famous French Postmodernism philosopher, said.
The sign masks the fact that there is no basic reality.
The contemporary communication tools such as multimedia player, smartphone , tv satelite , internet
have produced a global village world as John Naisbitt said but it ‘s also produce global hatred ,global emotion , global marginality and global radicalization.
Multinational capitalist and corportion reproduces global postmodern sign and articulates a set of popular ideologies which contain family , sexuality , race , prejudice , work ,accumulation of capital and leisure in one package which globally marketed , distributed ,sold and consumed in emerging countries and Third world countries.