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Communication and Media Studies, Digital Scholarship, Literary Studies, Postcolonial Studies

Digital Postmodernism and Postcolonialism

05.01.18 | Comment?

Whereas the late 20th century was defined by cultural critics in terms of postmodernism and postcolonialism, in the 21st century our world is increasingly being described as post-human. Digital interactivity has triggered a transformation whose impact is greater than that of any other innovation in the history of technologies of communication. According to a 2016 Ericsson Mobility Report, over 90% of the world’s population will be covered by mobile broadband networks by 2021. “The world has been redrawn,” claims the Internet critic Andrew Keen, “as a distributed network.” It is becoming evident that we too are being redrawn as human beings, as individuals, and as citizens. [….]

At the heart of the change from analogue and print to digital is the capacity for connectedness that information technology brings – connectedness of information in and between databases, between experts and the public, between communities across the world, and between the arts and the sciences.

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Arthur, Paul Longley. “Digital Postmodernism and Postcolonialism.” In Claiming the Difference: Identity in Literatures and Cultures, edited by Sarangadhar Baral, 21–28. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2018.

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Paul Arthur is Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow and Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He speaks and publishes widely on major challenges and changes facing 21st-century society, from the global impacts of technology on communication, culture and identity

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