Beyond and Between Nihilism and Social Hope: Stumbling on the edge of a positive postmodernity

This paper brings together two sets of writing under development, but with common themes of rejection of concepts of unity, coherence and singularity that characterize modernity. However, they also reject the notions of fragmented individualism and nihilism that are seen in much postmodern thinking. In our search for ways of facilitating generation of meaning within and for those thinking/acting within organizations, we explore the concept of a positive postmodernity (popomo), and metaphors by which it might contribute to this meaning generation.