Representation
"The postmodern attack on representation, and thus on legitimation, has paradoxical consequences. If our representations--epistemological, moral, political--are ultimately without ground, then they must be the effect of power structures and are unconsciously political. This is at first sight not necessarily a bad thing, as we have seen in the discussion of cultural politics . . . . However, what postmodern politics does not offer is a legitimation of the interventions that the advent of the postmodern has thus enabled."
Hans Bertens, The Idea of the Postmodern: a History, pp. 187-188.
Postmodernism leaves us in a vulnerable position: On the one hand, we gain the freedom to question the structures of power, but at the same time, we lose the stability we hope to use to support our own position.