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| In this wide-ranging course we will discuss the phenomenon of postmodernism and analyze how this phenomenon has altered for Cross Cultural Communication. There is much debate as to the definition of postmodernism and also much criticism. It has been attacked as a mixture of "narcissism" and "nihilism" by former United States vice-president Al Gore; it has been defined as the triumph of the spectacle by French Marxist theorist Guy Debord; it has been lamented as the abolition of reality by simulacra in the works of philosopher Jean Baudrillard; and it has been defended as the liberation of communication from hegemonic narratives by the philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard; and so on and so on. One might say that, in a postmodern formula, it is communication that creates cultures in the first place. At any rate, we shall look into, study, and analyze the phenomenon (which is more or less co-extensive with what is called "globalism") and critically asses its practical impact on communica
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