The Symbolic Function of Transmodernity

Abstract

In this article transmodernity will be described as the symbolic context within which, in the last decades, new formulations of selfhood and community have emerged that challenge consolidated representations of the world. The aim will be to examine and map out an illustrative range of discourses at the core of the transmodern scenario, highlighting the counterhegemonic potential of its symbolic function vis-à-vis modern representations of reality. In doing so, particular focus will be put on some of the major effects of globalisation, namely spatial displacement, virtuality and fragmentation, arguing that these factors help us to understand the 'critical' dimension of globalisation as a traumatic process of dislocation of social space. It is by scrutinising these factors that we grasp the ability of 'transmodern' formulations of space and community to challenge the position of modern discourses.To speak is to fight, in the sense of playing, and speech acts fall within the domain of a general agonistics (Lyotard, 1979(Lyotard, /1984.

The hotel of tomorrow

“…For Magda (2005: 73), ‘Transmodernity is postmodernity without its innocent rupturism’. Transmodernity refers to the ‘intuitive aspirations for inclusivity, diversity, partnership, sacredness, and quality of life, deep play, sustainability, universal human rights, the right of nature and peace on earth’ (Ateljevic, 2011: 509; Mura, 2012). In transmodernity, there is a universal yearning for a new kind of authenticity.…”

Emerging Influence of Transmodernism and Transpersonal Psychology Reflected in Rising Popularity of Transformational Festivals

“…38-39) CYBERCULTURE Rapid introduction of the Information Age as an outgrowth of the Digital Revolution often is credited with accelerating isolation and Individualism under the postmodern paradigm. The mechanism by which informatics contributed to the selfish cynicism society now confronts had to do with destabilizing such psychosocial experiences as time and space, real versus simulated, and serious against entertaining (Gottschalk, 2000;Lyotard, 1984;Mura, 2012). The eventual flood of digital communication technologies saturated and weakened the soil upon which economically mature societies were built, forever altering the ways we receive, organize, process, and share knowledge and wisdom (Kirby, 2006(Kirby, , 2009.…”

An nua-aoiseachas liteartha agus filíocht Phádraig Mhic Fhearghusa

“…Is féidir deasghnátha áirithe a shonrú sna gnóthaí a bhfuil dul an tras-nua-aoiseachais uirthi, an litríocht san áireamh. Bíonn onóir agus urraim nasctha leis an tseandacht agus leis an stíl mhaireachtála traidisiúnta (Mura 2012). Cáintear an diúltú ar radharcanna domhanda traidisiúnta.…”