Introduction

Abstract

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1–3). This logocentric view followed a long history until modernity when writers have bitten from the fruit of knowledge, and transformed themselves into simulacra of God-Creator, aware of their creative power through the word. Then reproduction takes center stage: In the beginning was the image and the image became God. This is the dawning of our metanarratives, when copy and original lose their differences, when reproductions become more real than the thing reproduced. History ends the cyclical motion of its linearity, and science is appropriated as a discourse among many, without presence or fixed meanings. The moment the postmodern established itself is a moment whose origin cannot be precisely traced, since the fixation of an origin goes against the essential principle of what it is constituted.