vocabulary. The languages that have been useful in talking about culture and politics in the
past don't really seem adequate to this historical moment.(Jameson on postmodernism
quoted in Stephanson 1988, 12–13) In 1989, the social theorist Francis Fukuyama wrote a
controversial article in the National Interest under the title 'The End of History?'In the article,
he argued that with the pending demise of the communist empire, History with a capital H …