Cynicism and Postmodernity keyword-police and the increasing difficulty experienced

and the increasing difficulty experienced by great numbers of people in accessing information and scientific-technological knowledge

As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent

and the most rapacious global corporations like Facebook

were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens

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Cynicism and Postmodernity keyword-police and the increasing difficulty experiencedMelancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. A casualty of modernization? Or a product of postmodernism? In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes undertakes a descent into the modern cynical consciousness, and emerges with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society. He charts the development of a culture of cynicism within postmodernity, in forms such as an