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Postmodern Millennialism and its Globalization
Postmodern millennial beliefs, prophecies, pandemics, disasters, apocalypse, pseudo-science weigh on our civilization at a global level which I assume an impact taking into consideration:
a) Transnationalization and globalization
b) Cultural industries
c) Cyberspace) Uses and appropriations
The characteristics of postmodern millennialism, which I understand as a millennial belief, but which develops under the characteristics of postmodernity. I propose that there is something that we could define as postmodern millennialism, which I understand as a belief that represents the feeling of the time based on some fundamental features of postmodernity:
• Uncertainty as an ontological feature of postmodernity and the fragmentation of great stories. The opposition to modernity is what Augé also conceived as “super-modernity”: the social situation in which the world finds itself marked by excess events, speed, and individualism. And that is also characterized by “non-places” (places of anonymity, circulation, such as airports or supermarkets), “no time” (presenteeism thanks to the means of communication and transportation), and the “not real” ( virtuality, internet).
In addition to the fall of the great stories, the subject generates a kind of…
