The author is one of Europe s foremost philosophers. His earlier work The Postmodern Condition is widely regarded as a modern classic. This book develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity. The author is one of Europe s foremost philosophers. The author is one of Europe's foremost philosophers. His earlier work The Postmodern Condition is widely regarded as a modern classic. This book develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity. The author is one of Europe's foremost philosophers. Introduction: About the Human.1. Can Thought go on without a Body?.2. Rewriting Modernity.3. Matter and Time.4. Logos and Tekhne, or Telegraphy.5. Time Today.6. Newman: The Instant.7. The Sublime and the Avant Garde.8. Something like: Communication ... without Communication. .9. Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable.10. Speech Snapshot.11. After the Sublime, the State of Aesthetics.12. Conservation and Colour.13. God and the Puppet.14. Obedience.15. Scapeland.16. Domus and the Megalopolis.Index.