Informationism is the new trend of philosophy, so new, it is not yet recognized as a proper word in either spell check, or by the normal search channels of the World Wide Web. This is not to say the search is doomed to failure, or the topic non-existent. Upon research, I found approximately 1160 entries on the MSN Google search, in regards to the topic. While there are many schools yet to research, they have been defined, this one has not, and so it has become a priority, to represent and define.

  At present, informationism is considered a form of web-based terrorism, using blogs as a platform to initiate propagandist attacks. This definition, however is that generated by the post-modernist. This leads into the question of what is post-modernism, what are its historical roots, and why is it separate from informationism?

  Post-modernism as a term can be traced to the English artist, John Walker Chapman, in 1870. It was used to mean  post-impressionist art at the time; however, this was the first public awareness that there was a shift from modernism in society. In 1971 the first true comparative analasys of modernism, and post-modernism was writtin by Ihab Hassan, in the Dismemberment of Orpheus :Toward a Post-modern Literature. This might be considered the first official recognition of the post-modern movement.

   The concept of the modern era is traced to the beginnings of the enlightenment era; it carries through the industrial age. Its process was the shift to a nationalist based society, as opposed to that of monarchy, which was mandated by the needs of the industrial era. Upon the advent of the mass media, society shifted once more.

   The argument of eras is to say, a person living in a monarchy, with an agricultural based feudal society, is fundamentally different in outlook from one living in an industrialized society. A person that lives in the era of mass media is likewise different in out look from one that lives in a society that is absent of radio and television broadcast. They simply do not have the access to the information, or the cultural awareness that mass media provides. It follows that a person living in the web-based society has access to far more information than one living before the advent of the popular Internet; hence the outlook is likewise fundamentally altered.

  This leads to the question, what is post-modernism? At present, it is a form of radical empiricism, which is to say that if all knowledge is a posteri, or that which can be obtained from the senses; and if in experience, all things are subject to change; then there can be no truth. This argument, first popularized by David Hume in his work “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” 1748 has been utilized by the post-modernist in the arguement that any anthropological study of society is by necessity influenced by the culture of the anthropologist, and hence a distortion.

 This arguement is ussually advanced through the inherently self-conflicting methodology of decunstruction. (If as the post modernist suggest, methodology is counter-productive to understanding how things work)

    The process of decunstruction is that of finding the exception in a given generality, and then pushing that exception to the point the entire work appears absurd. To defend the ground of the post-modernist, the general rule is to never accept or reject a statement, as this would in turn be a statement that one could attack. Other key concepts to  decunstruction include using non-familiar terms within a text to make it appear obscure, to write statements open to broad interpretation, and of course, to never allow anyone to clarify the statements of the person making the decunstruction argument.