Sunday 10 February 2008

What is Postmodernism?

Postmodernism is "all intellectual play of surfaces and depthless reification of the commodified body in a post-industrial epoch." (Simon Turner, Gists & Piths)

postmodernism is a convoluted term
postmodernism is rotting our social fabric
postmodernism is "a loathing for 'bourgeois values"
postmodernism is the rise of political correctness and the attempt to purge dissenting opinion from the ranks of the academic
postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientism
postmodernism is generally viewed as a critique of modernism
postmodernism is the foolishness
postmodernism is about and
postmodernism is most likely the most important
postmodernism is the idea of the collapse of grand narratives
postmodernism is all about process
postmodernism is notoriously difficult to define
postmodernism is a move beyond the limitations of reductionism and rational analysis—beyond rationality
postmodernism is epistemological relativism
postmodernism is moving that pace to exponential levels
postmodernism is againist modernity and progress
postmodernism is still a
postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good
postmodernism is not a term that appeared in our vocabulary from nowhere
postmodernism is like the loch ness monster
postmodernism is one of the most dangerous movements of the century for christians
postmodernism is the cultural worldview that now penetrates and owns our society
postmodernism is not what you think
postmodernism is a hospital where the beds must remain empty
postmodernism is a term which attempts to describe the condition of contemporary society coming to grips with the failings of modernity
postmodernism is pragmatism; we find ways of accommodating ourselves to the debased norm

Postmodernism is self-referential like this definition (George Ttoouli, Gists & Piths)

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