The World in a “Precedence of Simulacra”: Towards a Triumph of Historicism?

... that stems, in part, from a search for alternatives thereto [ 5 ], including such options as meta-modernism or post-postmodernism [ 6 ]. Curiously, when analyzing today’s Middle East, researchers label the current situation a “renaissance” of pre-modernity, while allowing postmodernism to retain plurality that is both typical for it and opens up opportunities for archaisms amid a multiplicity of narratives. Nonetheless, since individual traces of the modern and post-modern legacy remain, we ...