Four fundamental myths of postmodern thought : (or, the eclipse of the gaze)

In the following I address four basic epistemological assumptions that underlie and define postmodern thought. While these as - sump tions are accepted, consciously or not, by postmodern thought as a priori and unchallengeable truths, I argue that they actually are historically established ideological myths that increasingly premise both mainstream and academic discourses, with specific analytical and political consequences. By postmodern thought I don't mean any specific trend of thought within the epistemologically and culturally multicolored mosaic of postmodernity, the latter being understood as the era of global capitalism. Rather, I mean any thought that defines itself by precisely the four epistemological principles in question.