Define postmodernism

Belief in irony as sincerity.

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>>9401362

>>9401389
>no y axis
pls no

>>9401394
on the right

>>9401398
>progression of movement = y axis
>tradition - avant-garde = x axis
pls no

>>9401362
The literary and artistic period that followed modernism.

>>9401362
what follows after modernism

>>9401394
more like a WHY axis amirite?

art about art

>>9401362
The end of metanarratives

>>9401407
>>9401406
>le nothing but periodization meme
Jameson didn't die for this

we're in post-postmodern times currently, which is essentially meme culture.

the 90's were postmodern, and they curtailed into a brief period of classicism, and then were catapulted almost back to the 90's in a way that is expressed by new technology.

>>9401506
Avant-garde movement following modernism characterized by rejection of larger narratives (probably the most important aspect), blending high & low culture (debatable, but often said), irony, genre pastiche, meta elements, and deconstruction, poststructuralism & intersectionality (in criticism). Part of the reason that it is difficult to define postmodernism is its rejection of metanarratives. This is really the best definition I can give, despite being just a collection of attributes that postmodern art/culture objects sometimes embody.

>>9401406
>>9401471
Basically these, combined.

End of value structures as oppressive and deconstruction of individuality. Inseparable from neo marxism as organizing the world into groups, oppressor vs oppressed

>>9401362
Cancer

>>9401362
no

>>9401499
It's really only way HOW to define it, otherwise it can be defined BY certain attributes.

Cancer

>>9401362
I've always thought about it as stoicism but instead of not letting emotions affect your reason, you acknowledge that they do and just don't give a shit anyway.

"Maybe I shouldn't kill those people because I am angry and anger affects my feelings"
Vs.
"I am going to kill those people because I am angry, even though I know anger affects my reason--but I don't care"

>>9401362
There's something terribly sad and banal about it

>>9401389
>Gertrude Stein on "Non-Representational Abstract"
cum on step it up

>>9401362
Arrive late to a party and have to drink warm beer.

>>9401471
The end of a metanarrative, rather. Islam will take over in Europe if postmodernism isn't stopped. Despite the trillion dollar industry bombing the sand people, they'll still sing the song of their people, and not ours.

>>9404227
3/10

>>9401471
>the "le end of le metanarrative" meme
Yeah, because the internet doesn't exists.

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>>9401389
>Bergman's films being subjective reality
no (aside from Persona and maybe Seventh Seal)

>>9404243
How exactly is the internet a meta-narrative? It's a place with a billion different voices and viewpoints,pretty much exemplifying postmodernistic pluralism

>>9404229
Seriously though, what is the literal effect of postmodernism on the Islamic world?

We might have a few color revolutions in Asia, but I doubt it will have a lasting effect. Even Russia and Eastern Europe seem immune to the toxin.

Postmodernism is just a brainfart that killed the arrogant parts of Europe.