If modernism had tried to anchor in consciousness a centre which could no longer hold--the conscience of the heroic, socially alie...nated artist--postmodernism had shown us an even darker side of modernity and the aporias of the aesthetic. It had shown that there is nothing for consciousness to be anchored to: no universal ground of truth, justice, or reason, so that consciousness itself is thus "decentred," no longer origin, author, location of intentional agency but a function through which impersonal forces pass and intersect--Dover Beach displaced by an international airport lounge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »