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

... state of “precedence of simulacra” has been omitted in Russian discussions, yet we believe that this is precisely the state we will have to emerge from on our way to the potentially outlined neo-modernity. Which brings us back to the discussion of postmodernism and historical science in a broader context. In his analysis of the “postmodernist challenge” faced by historical science, Alexander I. Filyushkin notes that “postmodernists claim that the past does not exist as such, instead, there is an information field represented ...