Постмодернизъм и политическа идентичност
Postmodernity and Political Identity

Summary/Abstract: The article views the latest anti-communist revolutions in Bulgaria and some of the Balkan states as postmodern transitions. The basic hypothesis raised is that the new agent of the revolutions, youth, forms postmodern dimension of the social change and solves problems of cultural identification of the young generation. The features of postmodernity are as follows: first, total lack of political narratives. Young generation substitutes ideological discourses with new cultural texts. Second, the revolutions are a splash of artistic creativity and a breakdown of the distinction between popular and political culture. Third, confusion over time and space is expressed in “here and now” perception of political change. Forth, commoditization of revolutionary practices, recontextualizing of advertisement and media images into political meanings. Fifth, young participants in anti-communist revolutions use a specific political vocabulary marking an identification distinction rather than constructing a political discourse.

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