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| - Postmodernism was a dramatic modernisation of the postal service in France in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It consisted of several crucial technological reforms which allowed postal workers to deliver letters and parcels to larger numbers of people within shorter periods of time. The reforms also resulted in mass retrenchment, leaving former workers dissatisfied and irate. They formed a circle of postal workers including Derrida, Barthes, Foucalt and Ovid, who wrote a series of pamphlets demanding that their jobs be reinstated. These pamphlets have since then been commonly misinterpreted as theoretical and philosophical works of criticism and linguistics.
- Note the postmodern apology of Mike Duvall.
- Postmodernism is a term describing a wide-ranging change in thinking, which is generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding modernism.
- Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives. It is used in critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture, and design, as well as in marketing and business and the interpretation of history, law and culture in the late 20th century.
- "Postmodernism" can't be "defined," because its "existence" is entirely dependent on your (and "Stephen's") conception of "reality" and "truth." Postmodernism, or "po-mo," for short, is, in itself, a socially constructed metanarrative and hegemony, and should be deconstructed by anyone interested in truthiness. You can live in a postmodern "reality," or you can live in reality as defined by Wikiality. Your choice.
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| - Postmodernism was a dramatic modernisation of the postal service in France in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It consisted of several crucial technological reforms which allowed postal workers to deliver letters and parcels to larger numbers of people within shorter periods of time. The reforms also resulted in mass retrenchment, leaving former workers dissatisfied and irate. They formed a circle of postal workers including Derrida, Barthes, Foucalt and Ovid, who wrote a series of pamphlets demanding that their jobs be reinstated. These pamphlets have since then been commonly misinterpreted as theoretical and philosophical works of criticism and linguistics.
- "Postmodernism" can't be "defined," because its "existence" is entirely dependent on your (and "Stephen's") conception of "reality" and "truth." Postmodernism, or "po-mo," for short, is, in itself, a socially constructed metanarrative and hegemony, and should be deconstructed by anyone interested in truthiness. You can live in a postmodern "reality," or you can live in reality as defined by Wikiality. Your choice. Image:WWTS1sted1.png "Postmodernism"is a part of Wikiality.com's dictionary, "Watch What You Say". For the full dictionary, click . This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed.
- Note the postmodern apology of Mike Duvall.
- Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives. It is used in critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture, and design, as well as in marketing and business and the interpretation of history, law and culture in the late 20th century. Postmodernism is an aesthetic, literary, political or social philosophy, which was the basis of the attempt to describe a condition, or a state of being, or something concerned with changes to institutions and conditions (as in Giddens, 1990) as postmodernity. In other words, postmodernism is the "cultural and intellectual phenomenon", especially since the 1920s' new movements in the arts, while postmodernity focuses on social and political outworkings and innovations globally, especially since the 1960s in the West. The term postmodern is described by Merriam-Webster as meaning either "of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one" or "of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature)", or finally "of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language". The American Heritage Dictionary describes the meaning of the same term as "Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: “It [a roadhouse] is so architecturally interesting … with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock”.
- Postmodernism is a term describing a wide-ranging change in thinking, which is generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding modernism.
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