Western philosophical debates about Modernism and Postmodernism since the 1970s have often focussed on rival claims and counter-claims regarding objective truth, on the one hand, and the social construction of “truths” on the other. What light can 21st-century post-Postmodern positions – especially Metamodernism and ‘Post-Truth’ – throw upon these debates?
This History of Ideas talk will offer a very rapid and selective top-down examination of these issues regarding Postmodernism and its aftermaths via its altercations with Architecture and Science. Where have these philosophical developments left us, both morally and aspirationally, one quarter of our way into the 21st Century?