K this is gonna be a weird new thread where I google something and chuck down in real time everything I see Now exploring: Postmodernismhttps://twitter.com/TylorTips/status/1092926231245475840 …
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"I once asked a group of my students if they knew what the term postmodernism meant: one replied that it’s when you put everything in quotation marks." - https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-postmodernism-20791 … i.e. exploring concepts such as "humanity", "truth" etc.
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Hyperconsciousness. So meta ideas? Ugh this article is so fluffy. It explains things by using bigger words that I still dont know the meaning of. Is that what postmodernism is?? While we're at it, what is modernism?
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Wait something is clicking here: "while modernist architects were interested in unified meanings, universal truths, technology and structure, postmodernists favoured double coding (irony), vernacular contexts and surfaces"
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From what I can get at so far, it's a rejection, disillusionment, or a kind of ironic, satirical wordplay - but for ideas. There is a suggestion that this is directly linked with late capitalism. Another suggests its a kind of schizophrenic culture.
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"the substitution of pastiche for the satirical impulse of parody" why do people write like this smh that hasn't explained anything
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"Postmodernism is difficult to define, because to define it would violate the postmodernist's premise that no definite terms, boundaries, or absolute truths exist." - https://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/postmodernism.htm … So, herein lies the problem. Is postmodernism a denial of truth? Or asserting multiple?
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Idk about this site. Seems like its just describing postmodernists as people with typically leftist views on conservation, anti-consumerism, pro human rights etc. I see this word thrown around on twitter so frequently but we don't seem to have a common definition
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Dw Tate has got our backs: "Modernism was generally based on idealism and a utopian vision of human life and society and a belief in progress. It assumed that certain ultimate universal principles or truths such as those formulated by religion or science could be used to...
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understand or explain reality." "Postmodernism was a reaction against modernism." "[It] was born of scepticism and a suspicion of reason. It challenged the notion that there are universal certainties or truths... and advocated that individual experience and interpretation...
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of our experience was more concrete than abstract principles. While the modernists championed clarity and simplicity; postmodernism embraced complex and often contradictory layers of meaning." - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/postmodernism … K I'm satisfied for now.
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