Issue #29

Abstract: The task is to understand postmodernity as a whole. To do this, it is necessary to identify invariants in various interpretations of postmodernism, postmodern, postmodernity. Such invariants can — by definition — be only formal, independent of the specifics of the content. In this regard, the emphasis is made on the architectonics of postmodernity and its languages, their universalities. The concept of architectural metaphor, corresponding to both the architectural origins of postmodernity and the formalism of architecture, is introduced. Postmodernity is regarded as a reaction to the dominance of totality projects. Its historical dimensions are elevated to the Modern Age from the Renaissance to the High Modernity, when total utopias in architecture and politics have been realized. The limitations of postmodernism, which only imitates the lost spontaneity, are analyzed. Prospects of leaving postmodernity and moving towards «postpostmodernity» are considered.