The epistemological claim is that the search for the ultimate foundations of knowledge, for depth and mechanism, is futile. Postmodernism is an anti foundationalist philosophy in the sense that it denies that there can be such a thing as transcendent, perfect knowledge. Instead all knowledge claims are justified by rhetoric, convention or authority.

The psychological claim of postmodernism is that the notion of a coherent and unitary self is an illusion. The self is really a multiplicity of parts and fragments. Associated with this, the coherence of traditional identity formulations relating to classifications on the basis of race, gender and other physical characteristics are also suspect.

So, in keeping with the postmodernist doctrine, what could be more postmodern than cybersex? Now "cybersex" stems from the term cyberspace, originally a term from William Gibson's science-fiction novel of 1984, Neuromancer. Basically cyberspace is the name some people use for the conceptual space where words,

Henry Adam's landmark essay "The dynamo and the Virgin", in which he equates the forty-foot dynamos at the Great Exposition of 1900 with the mother of God is nuanced with a subtle eroticism. Standing in the gallery of machines, gazing awestruck at the enormous, spinning "symbol of infinity", Adams finds himself in the presence of an "occult mechanism" animated by an unmistakably female sexual energy - "female because the force harnessed by the dynamo, electricity is mysterious, almost supernatural. "In any previous age" he writes "sex was strength. Diana of the Ephesians was goddess because of her force; she was the animated dynamo; she was reproduction - the greatest and most mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund". The sexual power of the pagan goddess was sublimated in the symbol of the virgin, and now, says Adams, the procreative power and spiritual sensuality of the Virgin has been transfigured in the form of the dynamo. Perhaps in postmodern times, our dynamo is the computer and we have moved to corrupt the Virgin. Violent and passionless, beyond ego psychology or social mores, it is a posthuman sexuality without referentiality and without limits, alienated from a body that seems, more and more, like a pre-industrial artefact.

Even the traditional two genders do not constitute the limit in cyberspace, which gives whole meaning to the postmodern idea that individuals should be able to construct their own identities from a range of sources. The more elaborate chat and interactive domains are peopled (if that is the correct word) with neuters and other creatures of omnisexual variety.

Emerging from the rubble of WW1, the dadaists lampooned bourgeois ideals, excoriating the industrial culture that had brought the world to the eve of Armageddon. Putting an absurdist spin on the clockwork world of Cartesian mechanism, they reconstructed humankind as a race of automata run amok.

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