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Hypermodernity (orsupermodernity) is a type, mode, or stage ofsociety that reflects an inversion ofmodernity. Hypermodernism stipulates a world in which theobject has been replaced by its own attributes. The new attribute-driven world is driven by the rise oftechnology and aspires to aconvergence between technology and biology and more importantly information and matter. Hypermodernism finds its validation inemphasis on the value of new technology to overcome natural limitations. It rejectsessentialism and instead favourspostmodernism. In hypermodernism the function of an object has its reference point in the form of an object rather than function being the reference point for form. In other words, it describes an epoch in whichteleologicalmeaning is reversed from thestandpoint offunctionalism in favor ofconstructivism.
Hypermodernity emphasizes a hyperbolic separation between past and present because:
Hypermodernity invertsmodernity to allow the attributes of an object to provide even more individuality than modernism. Modernity trapped form within the bounds of limited function; hypermodernity posits that function is now evolving so rapidly, it must take its reference point from form itself. Both positive and negative societal changes occur due tohyper-individualism and increased personal choice.
Postmodernity rejected the idea of the past as a reference point and curated objects from the past for the sole purpose of freeing form from function. In postmodernism, truth was ephemeral as the focus was to avoid non-falsifiable tenets. Postmodernity described a total collapse of modernity and its faith in progress and improvement in empowering the individual.
If distinguished from hypermodernity,supermodernity is a step beyond theontological emptiness ofpostmodernism and relies upon plausibleheuristic truths. Whereasmodernism focused upon the creation of great truths (or whatLyotard called "master narratives" or "metanarratives"), and postmodernity was intent upon their destruction (deconstruction); supermodernity operates extraneously of meta-truth. Instead, attributes are extracted from objects of the past based on their present relevance. Since attributes are both true and false, atruth value is not necessary including falsifiability. Supermodernity curates useful attributes from modern and postmodern objects in order to escape nihilistic postmoderntautology. Related authors areTerry EagletonAfter Theory, andMarc AugéNon-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity.
