Afterword: Reconstructing Postmodernism

Brian McHale begins his reflections on postmodernism with the words of Steve Katz, who metaphorically described the onset of a once-new era, bringing everyone "out into the air" and imagining how the color of the traffic light changed and at the same time "in different cities, we crossed the street." This idea so delighted McHale that he "brought" people to the streets not only in different cities, but on all continents, anticipating the planetary advance of postmodernism. The author examines the mechanism of emergence and ways of spreading postmodernism, linking these processes with the global economy and its cultural consequences. The role of the experience of occupation, resistance and survival in shaping the aesthetics of Olympians, surftionists, the influence of magical realism and the Latin American boom on postmodernism, as well as the interpenetration of Western European and Asian postmodern literature. Forecast where we'll be tomorrow: planetary, post-postmodernism, postmodernism - we have to do it yourself.