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postmodernism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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We have lived through the end of postmodernism and the dawning of postmodernity.
From the guardian.co.uk
Postmodernism asserts anti foundationalism and the death of the grand narrative.
From the guardian.co.uk
Postmodernism is basically an appraisal, so in that sense it does have benefits.
From the guardian.co.uk
If postmodernism rejects metanarratives, then it obviously rejects Christianity.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Gaudy and irreverent, postmodernism was once an iconic chapter in design history.
From the guardian.co.uk
In fact, revivalism seems to be one of the permanent legacies of postmodernism.
From the guardian.co.uk
Recent Western scholarship of China has been heavily influenced by postmodernism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Postmodernism has only ever really made sense when talking about architecture.
From the guardian.co.uk
Far from making the humanities scientific, postmodernism has made them irrelevant.
From the theatlantic.com
- Genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
- (postmodernist) of or relating to postmodernism; "postmodernist architecture"
- Postmodernism is a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative. ...
- Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement
- (postmodern) a view that social and cultural reality, as well as social science itself, is a human construction.
- (postmodern) A term used to describe the period of art which followed the modern period, i.e., from the 1950's until recently. ...
- (Post-modern) a term that first appeared in architectural criticism in the 1960s to refer to the end of the unified International style typical of Modernism. ...
- (Post-Modern) An attitude or trend of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, in which artists and architects accept all that modernism rejects. In architecture, the movement away from or beyond what had become boring adaptations of the International Style, in favor of an imaginative, eclectic approach. ...
- (Post-modern) Literary, artistic, cultural, and philosophical movement revolving around the post-industrial world in which we live, and the unique aspects of the trends of modern society.
