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Postmodern Motifs and Ambience in Cyberpunk Films ...on the Example of the Wachowski Brothers' The Matrix. In his Postmodernism for Beginners, Richard Appignanesi suggests that postmodernism is something unavoidable, stating that "modern is always historically at war with what comes immediately before it" (1995: 19) and, therefore, "is always post-something" (1995: 19). Consequentially, postmodernism is modernism that was taken to its extremes and became its own contradiction. This necessity of modernism to become its own negation in order to be reborn in a new form derives from the fact that any kind of art "can only progress towards its own self-annihilation" (Appignanesi, 1995: 45). As it is a constant tendency of the mankind to always progress toward modernity, it must have become an unceasing tendency as well to annihilate the modern and shaping the postmodern of what was left, the cultural remains. No wonder that postmodernism, which probably has its roots in...

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