The 21st century culture, however, is at its early stage of development, and society has yet to see what would be the future of technology-driven culture. Possibly, the thousands-to-millions of global villages created through Internet technology would converge to create a cultural explosion that would be the biggest mark of the 21st century. It is also possible that the free, expansive knowledge acquired through the Internet would lead to new schools of thought that will redefine and change the way humans pursue knowledge and truth.
The author talks about the lack of discipline in the words and images that proliferate in the media age. It is important for the author to understand, though, that poststructuralism and postmodernism emanates mostly from words and images created by the technology-driven culture. The discipline Paglia talks about in her essay is still there, although this discipline is not spent on understanding art works from the Stone Age or Byzantine era. Instead, this discipline is spent in creating codes or...
This discipline can also be found in the voracious reader and receiver of random information, who could possibly create and develop a process through which users of information can easily and quickly access very specific information, information that they truly need. Indeed, there remains a lot to be seen in the future of 21st century culture and society. Perhaps, towards the mid-21st century, society and culture will be more ready for another assessment, similar to Paglia's The Magic of Images.
Works cited
Aylesworth, G. (2005). "Postmodernism." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 18 November 2009. Available at: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/.
"Poststructuralism." (2009). In Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 18 November 2009. Available at: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/472274/poststructuralism.
