If the provisional or contingent is the definition of postmodernism, along with the use of space versus time, then what that means is that the meaning is not clear, it is contingent on something else. A truth that cannot be relied on. A truth that only works in some situations. A truth that cannot really be known. A truth that is up to interpretation. A truth based on space and not time. A truth based on what is in the room,not memory. A truth based on what is present and can be seen, not absent and in the past.
Now this part about the past and memory is something I do not quite understand. How can it be that the past would not be present, when the past is a part of us. Marks of the past are all about us, even in nature. Dreams, are usuaally our efforts to work out the past, as is most fiction that is written. I am not sure that I agree with the tenets of postmodernism in this regard.
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