Any ways, I find Postmodernism to just be a application we (people who have a gradual understanding of it)justify by watching it act on itself. It completely backhands the notion of an Ultimate Truth or Objective reality and creates skepticism for various fields of work.
Art,Literature,Architecture,History,Society,and Philosophy have all been bitten by this Postmodern look of everything. The Literature we have been reading and the movie we saw in class are prime examples. 1984 and Brave New World fondle our take on an corrupt society and biased history. That movie we watched taught us a little about the postmodern architecture. Maus and Cats cradle touch almost all of those subjects too somewhere along the lines. All this denial,skepticism, and critical thinking is aroused by postmodernism and shatters all that was made in "modernist" times.
It is a word that creates quiet a paradox in it's search to explain itself. It Calls beliefs nothing but narratives upheld by human thought. That means this postmodern belief itself is a Narrative itself; nothing more then a biased story explaining how everything else is just a biased story. But, it is not hypocritical in anyway because it itself admits it. It creates the thought that everything is true because a discourse with its own perspective and center has adopted it to be reality. Others may say it is not but that is just their discourse. I see how everything we have done this year is just a gradual teaching of postmodernism. Fist the discourse chart followed by the circles on objective history preceded by novels that deny truth its right to be truthful. It is all just a cluster of things postmodernism is applied too. Their is a quote I found in a article Mr.D gave us quite some time ago called modernity and Postmodernism.The author states, " We must stop trying to discover the undiscoverable (absolute truth) and openly acknowledge that what might be right to one person may not be right to another. Acceptance, not criticism; tolerance, not bigotry; and love, not hatred, must become the guiding principles of our lives." This way of thinking can only been acquired if you adopt postmodern thought. Instead of the statement " I agree to disagree" post modernity enlightened people might say " that's cool this is what I think". There are a couple of completely different topics I could talk about that relate to postmodernism. I could talk about how postmodernism is just a a crap load of symbols that make a word that is only decipherable by someone who can read English. Even then they may not know the meaning and this word is still meaningless. Then they go get a dictionary (aka book of nonsense) and try to find the definition made by the dictionary's discourse that is upheld by the society that see English as their premier language. this topic is more complex so I think I will end on a good note.
I feel Postmodernism says that you can basically criticize everything and say it is bull*** because postmodernism itself is Bull*** therefore proving itself to be true, and any Bull*** that is seen to be true from any perspective becomes a Narrative believed by all that know it's story and find it true. Weather it is a Narrative with a cult following or 10,000,000,000,000 believers it is bull***. It is now humanities(and for those of you who feel we are not the only intelligent lifeforms) the Universes duty to accept this fact and be accepting and open to all this Bull***.
Sorry if this marginalized you.I know it sounded a little Harsh but hey I guess I'm just biased and follow my own Truths. Tell me about yours.
Now An example of Modern art and Postmodern art
Modern: Recognizable and known as the awesome face by all!!!
Postmodern: WTF is That
I see a human version of the three headed dog in harry potter
Wrong, It is obviously a three headed Hindu Goddess
Wrong again, It is the inside of a collidescope
Your all wrong, Its just a picture...
But PICTURES DON"T MOVE...........
Its a GIF image......
That's debatable.......
