M. Christine Boyer’s essay "The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities" in her collection CyberCities is a wonderful polemic against the threats of a thoughtless postmodernism.  While she claims that cities have experienced a shift form the mechanical city to the cybercity that corresponds with a shift from modernism to postmodernism, she also warns against too easily following the trends of contemporary theory. 

As we war against totalities, afraid of their prescriptions and over-determinations, and believing that winning will liberate us from tryanny and oppression, we are driven on and on by negativity, by standing against, by not being for, until we reach a state of abjection. (38)

It occured to me in reading this essay that postmodernism both fights against the center in the form of universalizing discourses and guarantees the center in directing spectatorship towards the individual.