POSTMODERNISMPOSTMODERNISM

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What is PostmodernismWhat is Postmodernism??Postmodernism is hard to define because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas:

• Art

• Architecture

• Philosophy

• Music

• Film

• Literature

• Sociology

• Communications

• Technology

It is also hard to define a precise date for its beginning (1960s)

ModernismModernismPostmodernism = the return and revision of Modernism

Characteristics:

REJECTION OF THEOLD VICTORIAN

STANDARDS

1910-1930IMPRESSIONISMSUBJECTIVITY

OMNISCIENT THIRD-PERSON

NARRATORS

FRAGMENTATIONIS SOMETHING

TRAGIC

REFLEXIVITYSPONTANEITYDISCOVERY IN

CREATION

MODERN SCIENCE:EINSTEIN’S RELATIVITY

THEORY

UNIVERSAL TRUTHS

ESSENTIALITY ELITIST

COHERENCE

PostmodernismPostmodernism

FRAGMENTATIONIS CELEBRATED

1960sNEW VISION OF THE

POSITION OF MAN IN THESOCIETY AND IN

THE WORLD

POSTMODERN SCIENCE:QUANTUM THEORY

CHAOS

DOES NOT BELIEVE IN ONE

SINGLE TRUTH

DECONSTRUCTION

SCEPTICISMKALEIDOSCOPEOF CULTURES

INCOHERENCE

RIFLEXIVITY

Modernism and Postmodernism are cultural formations that accompany particular stages

of CAPITALISM(according to Frederic Jameson)

MODERNISM

Late 1800 – mid 1900

MONOPOLY CAPITALISM

CENTRALIZED

ELECTRIC AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS

POSTMODERNISM

Mid 1900 - now

MULTINATIONAL OR CONSUMER CAPITALISM

DECENTRALIZED

NUCLEAR AND ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES

KnowledgeKnowledgeMODERNISM POSTMODERNISM

SCIENCE

GOOD FOR ITS OWN SAKE

KNOWLEDGE BECOMES FUNCTIONAL (UTILITY)

SKILLS AND TRAINING

Transformation in the modes of knowledge production and distribution

THE EMERGENCE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

PoliticsPolitics

MODERNISM POSTMODERNISM

CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPICAL GROUPS

A DESIRE TO RETURN TO THE PRE-POSTMODERN ERA (MODERN/HUMANIST/ENLIGHTENMENT)

LIBERALS AND RADICALS (including feminist theories)

FRAGMENTATION AND MULTIPLICITY TENDS

MOTTO “THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY”