The postmodern discourse on the nature of knowledge is constructed on the authority and reliability which different forms of knowledge claim in various walks of life. This discourse has challenged the major formations of modernity, claiming a sort of objective, authentic and reliable knowledge in comparison with non-evidential forms of knowledge such as arts, literature and revelation. ‘Histori...

This article discusses, from an historical-neo-institutionalist and relational-strategic perspective, the postmodern thesis of the end of the state due to the increasing processes of world globalization. The main hypothesis is that the arguments which predict the structural crisis or the disappearance of the State in the age of neo-liberal globalization have their roots in a theoretically and h...

The postmodern organization has a design paradox in which leaders are concerned with efficiency and control as well as complex functioning. Traditional leadership theory has limited applicability to postmodern organizations as it is mainly focused on efficiency and control. As a result, a new theory of leadership that recognizes the design paradox has been proposed: complexity leadership theory...

Food security studies, while giving ever more attention to issues of perception and local knowledge in food outcomes, have yet to engage in a systematic discussion of the role played by society in food outcomes. While contemporary studies of food outcomes address issues of the social, especially as social structures relate to access to and production of food, this literature lacks an accompanyi...

This article serves as an introduction to discourse analysis. Due to logistical reasons, because this is a relatively new and multifaceted approach in research, this article involves only introductory remarks about discourse analysis as approach to qualitative, reflexive educational research. Different postmodern "approaches" to qualitative nursing research derived from other disciplines are be...

This paper explores the nexus of knowledge management and contemporary leadership theory within the public sector. The postmodern values embraced by the replacement cohorts (Millennials and Generation X) for the retiring Baby Boomers are in direct conflict with traditional leadership theories, thereby reducing the attractiveness of governmental employment. Today, the federal government, as a bu...

These notes have the status of letters written to ourselves: we wrote them down because, without doing so, we found ourselves making up new arguments over and over again. So began the abstract of our earlier paper Notes on Postmodern Programming. We now revisit the issue of postmodern programming, and attempt to address some of the questions raised by our exposition. To illustrate the nature of...

The purpose of the article is to consider negative aspects postmodernism and study how post-post modernity can help humanity overcome modern socio-cultural crisis. In their research, authors used various scientific methods cognition, such as analysis synthesis, in particular meta-analysis meta-synthesis, generalization, induction. analyze stages development civilization from point view social p...

By baroque, one implies the “general attitude” and “the formal quality” of a work of art which is trans-historical and “radiates through” histories, cultures, and works of art. In that way, just a seventeenth-century work of art cannot be considered baroque; on the other hand, even a postmodern work can display “baroque” features. However, as a slave to its era, the baroque of 2oth and 21th cen...