The corrosiveness of commodity fetishism, the breakout of collective life, and the loss of the cultural critic and spiritual precursor, all of these become new crisis of postmodernism.

商品拜物教的腐蚀性，集体生产方式被打破，文化的批判功能和精神先导作用的丧失等内容成为后现代文化面临的新的危机。

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The Museum of Modern Art's "Flame" (c. 1934-38), for example, is a precursor to all-over abstraction, with its jagged orange, black and white slashes that represent a raging fire.

WSJ: Men of Fire | Hood Museum | Becoming Jackson Pollock | By Lee Rosenbaum

This was the precursor of all subsequent annual CSR reporting and the first time a company felt compelled to state, not only their financial performance, but also the non-financial impacts their operations had on the communities and the environment where they operated.

FORBES: Part I in a CSR Series: Corporate Citizenship in a Global Economy

Self-awareness is, after all, a precursor to improvement.

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