Plus Ca Change

The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium, by Steven Best and Douglas Kellner. New York: Guilford, 2001. 313 pp. $38; pb $19.95. At the most recent fin de siecle a whole host of critical publications anticipated a turning point, and the subtitle Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium suggests that Steven Best and Douglas Kellner conceived of The Postmodern Adventure in that context. A specific turning point did arrive, not at midnight of 1 January 2000 (or 2001), but on the morning of 11 September 2001, which made a revision of much millennium literature and theory seem in order sooner than could have been anticipated.