Postmodernism has been interpreted from a number of different perspectives. Critics of the postmodern have labeled its participants as somewhat "defeatist" in their attitude by virtue of their unwillingness to address technological issues because of its increasing level of complexity. Proponents of postmodernism argue that there is no alternative other than to embrace this new view as a means to leave behind restrictive, logical modes of thinking in favor of a more unified, flexible, and innovative environment. It is important to view postmodernism as the foundation on which emerging IT and systems design are built. Only then will one be able to move away from traditional thought processes that encompasses the use of linguistics, propositional logic, and metaphysics to a metaphorical means to system design that includes the human element in unified fashion.
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