Thursday, 1 October 2015

Post-modernism - YouTube Video

Just a social construct.
There is no set definition.
It is a way of analysing things or frameworks. It is a critique of modernism and structures (post structuralism). There is no absolute truth. Some of these constructs that we build all of society on are gender, power, class, we assume these are real and postmodernism deconstructs this saying they are not necessarily true, they are things we have created as a society and we believe them to be true.
Want to break down good vs evil and male vs female. No one can agree on whether we are in the postmodern era, believed to start in late 19th century as reaction to hyper rationalism of people at the time, people who argue different theories to explain everything. Postmodernism argued nothing is purely objective, no true objective truth.

Any view that is post the modern period that challenges the norm of ideas of structure, binaries, rational thought. Best way is look at art and architecture and music. 

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