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OK. What defines postmodernism for u. Is it not breaking even with that structure?
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I'm sceptical about the term per se, except in an architectural context.
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Postmodernism doesn't exist? Even in theory? Post-structuralism?
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Post-structuralism is a fundamentally different thing.
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Ah? So post-structuralism, deconstruction etc exist but u'd not call it postmodern
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Indeed - but those are philosophical rather than artistic movements.
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They're not connected? I can see how they are in literature.
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There are some early works by Christopher Butler (long before his VSI) and also....
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...David Lodge in which they essentially distinguish pre-1945 modernism and .....
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Rejecting the idea of a high & low culture? And form? Reversing hierarchies?
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No, those things can be found way back in many art forms.
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But in the form of a movement which explicitly reacts to structuralism?
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Absolutely, in the sense of critical perspective on Saussure/Jakobson/Lévi-Strauss
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