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| | Postmodernism - definition of Postmodernism in Encyclopedia |
 | | Postmodernism has manifestations in many modern academic and non-academic disciplines: philosophy, theology, art, architecture, film, television, music, theatre, sociology, fashion, technology, literature, and communications are all heavily influenced by postmodern trends and ideas, and are thoroughly scrutinised from postmodern perspectives. | | | For example, one may refer to postmodern architecture, postmodern literature, postmodern culture, postmodern music and postmodern philosophy. | | | Andy Warhol is an early example of postmodern art in action, with his appropriation of common popular symbols and "ready-made" cultural artifacts, bringing the previously mundane or trivial onto the previously hallowed ground of high art. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Postmodernism
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| | postmodernism - Columbia Encyclopedia article about postmodernism |
| | Practitioners of postmodern architecture have tended to reemphasize elements of metaphor, symbol, and content in their credos and their work. | | | postmodernism, term used to designate a multitude of trends—in the arts, philosophy, religion, technology, and many other areas—that come after and deviate from the many 20th-cent. | | | As the force and vigor of abstract expressionism diminished, new artistic movements and styles arose during the 1960s and 70s to challenge and displace modernism in painting, sculpture, and other media. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/postmodernism
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| | Postmodernism |
| | On the one hand, postmodernism and deconstruction are celebrated as the end of philosophical self-delusion, a critical attack on all oppressive metanarratives, and the final dissolution of foundational thought. | | | This essay is an introduction to postmodernism and deconstruction as they relate to the special challenges of scholarship and teaching in the science and religion multidiscipline. | | | These new metanarratives would become new instruments of delusion and oppression; so the challenge of postmodernism is to live in the flux of change without the crutch of artificially willed certainty (see Caputo, 1987). |
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http://www.voicenet.com/~grassie/Fldr.Articles/Postmodernism.html
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| | Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology. | | | This association between the rejection of postmodernism and conservatism or fundamentalism may explain in part why the postmodern avowal of fragmentation and multiplicity tends to attract liberals and radicals. | | | Postmodernism, like modernism, follows most of these same ideas, rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasizing pastiche, parody, bricolage, irony, and playfulness. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html
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| | Postmodernism |
| | In “What is Postmodernism?,” which appears as an appendix to the English edition of The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard addresses the importance of avant-garde art in terms of the aesthetic of the sublime. | | | The postmodern, then, is a repetition of the modern as the “new,” and this means the ever-new demand for another repetition. | | | Furthermore, says Lyotard, a work can become modern only if it is first postmodern, for postmodernism is not modernism at its end but in its nascent state, that is, at the moment it attempts to present the unpresentable, “and this state is constant” (Lyotard 1984, 79). |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism
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| | Postmodernism |
| | Discussion during the 1980s of postmodernism in the arts focused on issues of style and of periodization. | | | Postmodern art seemed to capitulate to the dominant culture, which was itself now designated postindustrial or postmodern by various writers. | | | Jencks is the principal author on postmodernism in architecture, chiefly through his The Language of Postmodernism, which has gone through six editions and many translations since its first publication in 1977. |
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http://www.jahsonic.com/PostModernism.html
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| | Postmodernism and Its Critics |
| | Foucault is considered a postmodern theorist precisely because his work upsets the conventional understanding of history as a chronology of inevitable facts. | | | Fayaz Chagani's Postmodernism: Rearranging the Furniture of the Universe | | | While Postmodernism stresses the irrational, instruments of reason are freely employed to advance its perspective. |
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http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/pomo.htm
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| | What the heck is POSTMODERNISM? |
| | A postmodern artist or writer is in the position of a philosopher; the text he writes, the work he produces are not in principle governed by preestablished rules, and they cannot be judged according to a determined judgment. | | | Postmodernity is the era in which postmodern ideas, attitudes, and values reign -- when the mood of postmodernism is molding culture. | | | Postmodern thought, on the contrary, mirrors in its multiplicity of forms, ideologies, and agendas the playful eclecticism of postmodernity itself. |
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http://www.freewaybr.com/pomoessay.htm
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| | Postmodernism - Deconstruction -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources |
| | Celebrations of Postmodernity, the insistence of a continuation of modernity, interpretations of globally-emerging postmodern spaces, even the call for an analysis of hypermodernity thus coexist in the collection at hand. | | | The standpoint known as "postmodernism" (or, better, hypermodernism) is a dead-end. | | | Tom Bridges is the author of The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (SUNY Press, 1994). |
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http://www.erraticimpact.com/~20thcentury/html/postmodernism.htm
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| | postmodernism: details |
| | More seriously, perhaps, that postmodernism tends to celebrate the new technologies (though, admittedly, Baudrillard's view is intensely pessimistic) and, in doing so, depoliticizes them, removing any purchase on an analysis of their function as instruments of oppression or that postmodernism's questioning of rationality closes down the possibility of any development of a genuinely public sphere. | | | Ludic postmodernism, on the other hand, is playful, ironic and eclectic, some forms being very affirmative toward existing reality, others more pessimistic and nihilistic, this ludic form of postmodernism possibly leading to a justification of a refusal to engage with current political realities. | | | This section is intended for those readers who may be unfamiliar with the terms 'postmodernism' and 'postmodernity'. |
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http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/general/pomodet.html
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| | post-modernism @ the informal education homepage |
| | All of this is reflected in the rise of postmodernism. | | | Firstly, there is postmodern art - not just painting and sculpture but also architecture, music, literature, drama etc. It’s main features are a lack of depth and of meaning. | | | Part one deals with the passage from modernity to postmodernity in popular culture; part two with political-economic transformation; part three with the experience of space and time; and part four with the condition of postmodernity. |
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http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-postmd.htm
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Postmodernism |
| | In this way, postmodernism, the academic fad, will be explained via the use of postmodernism, the critical "ungrounding" of cultural assumptions and beliefs. | | | To call postmodernism an intellectual fad is neither disparaging nor inaccurate: all cultures are subject to fads, and intellectuals, as any postmodernist would assure you, are no exception. | | | This essay will assess the relevance and achievements of the postmodern critical enterprise (which are significant), while exercising a healthy skepticism about some of postmodernism's more lofty assertions. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100982
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| | Postmodernism |
| | The term postmodernism is sometimes applied to the literature and art after World War II (1939-45), when the effects on Western morale of the first war were greatly exacerbated by the experience of Nazi totalitarianism and mass extermination, the progressive devastation of the natural environment, and the omnious fact of overpopulation. | | | And these literary anomalies are paralleled in other arts by phenomena like pop art, op art, the musical compositions of John Cage, and the films of Jean-Luc Godard and other directors. | | | Many of the works of postmodern literature-- by Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Pynchon, Roland Barthes, and many others-- so blend literary genres, cultural and stylistic levels, the serious and the playful, that they resist classification according to traditional literary rubrics. |
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http://www.levity.com/corduroy/pmodern.htm
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| | PHILOSOPHY : Towards a multi- & meta-cultural Postmodern Philosophy |
| | Eco rightly claims postmodernism to be the avant-garde of the modernism of the 21th century, while others say that by depending too much upon a subjectivist and non-social conception of rationality, it moves towards irrationalism (Habermas, 1985). | | | (§ 6) The postmodern distinction between presence and absence initiates a postmodern spectrology, or a revision of the modern postulate which affirms certain texts to be omnipotent when delineating "reality". | | | (§ 3) The distinction between radical postmodernism and mild or moderate postmodernism (also called "constructive postmodernism") is justified on the grounds of the argumentative weakness of both Lyotard's paralogy or Derrida's deconstruction. |
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http://www.sofiatopia.org/equiaeon/philo.htm
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| | Certain Doubts » Characterizing a Fogbank: What Is Postmodernism, and Why Do I Take Such a Dim View of it? |
| | While this fact by itself seems quite uncontroversial, perhaps one way of exhibiting a postmodern outlook is to keep this fact always in the front of one’s mind, and to be always on the look-out for the possibility that others are using (slightly or significantly) different concepts in their thought about the world. | | | Postmodernism as a North American intellectual movement draws inspiration from a variety of French poststructuralist and postmodernist theorists, including Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, Lyotard, and Irigaray. | | | In his review, Dawkins suggests readers visit the Postmodernism Generator, explaining: “It is a literally infinite source of randomly generated, syntactically correct nonsense, distinguishable from the real thing only in being more fun to read. |
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http://bengal-ng.missouri.edu/~kvanvigj/certain_doubts/?p=453
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| | Postmodernism |
| | Q and A about Postmodern Worship Contemporary Music and Ancient Liturgy by the St. Louis Center for Christian Study Postmoderns long for an authentic experience of the transcendent. | | | This essay will argue that the first option of "embracing" postmodernity would be extremely dangerous, but at the same time, "running and hiding" is not an option for the Church either. | | | Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Postmodernism by Henry H. Knight III |
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http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/postmodernism.html
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| | In a postmodern world, fictional or real, these events wouldn’t be symbolic: they’d just be, a random coincidence of noises and music which happened once, for no particular reason. | | | What we did in class was talk first about examples of postmodernism from our everyday lives; we then talked through the list, and I worked to show how various examples illustrated some of the main ideas of postmodernism. | | | This is particularly evident in the arts, where an original painting, or a first edition, is worth tons of money, while a reproduction (a print, a second or eighteenth edition) is worth very little. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/English/engl2010mk/pomo2.html
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| | Perl, the first postmodern computer language |
| | In the very postmodern Stephen Sondheim musical, _Into the Woods_, one of the heroines laments, ``Is it always or, and never and?'' Of course, at the time, she was trying to rationalize an adulterous relationship, so perhaps we'd better drop that example. | | | Postmodernism came early to literature, so it's no surprise that we heard it first from a literary critic. | | | And postmodern is as good a name as any, especially since it's a bit of a joke on the ordinary meaning of modern. |
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http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
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| | Amazon.com: Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions Series): Books: ... |
| | The term, Postmodernism refers to the cultural and ideological configuration that is taken to have replaced or be replacing Modernity. | | | Although, in this article, social, political and other aspects of postmodernism have not been emphasized as much as art, architecture, and cultural aspects of postmodern age have been, this article clearly explains the connection and relation between postmodernism as dominant cultural form and late capitalist age. | | | He focuses on these changes on the individual level in postmodern society and his main concern was the cultural expressions and aesthetics that is associated with the different systems of production. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822310902?v=glance
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| | VoS - Voice of the Shuttle |
| | Postmodernism and Art History (articles "on over three years of exhibitions at museums and galleries"; browseable "by artist, period in art history, or postmodern ideas"; I link artists and ideas, because I write about artists that get me thinking") (Joh | | | Essays in Postmodern Culture (collected from Postmodern Culture journal) (ed. | | | Gender and Postmodern Communication ("This page locates the current Monist Interactive Issue discussion on Gender and Postmodern Communication"; includes links to resources) |
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http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2092
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| | Genres: Postmodernism |
| | Although the term "postmodernism" is continually undergoing interrogation and redefinition, one constant that emerges from the critical discourses surrounding it is a sense that postmodernism involves a radical rethinking of representational strategies, and with this a questioning of our underlying assumptions about how "meanings" are produced. | | | Annotated links to many other sites and projects on postmodern theory and culture. | | | Comprehensive list of authors, bibliographies, and links related to postmodernism. |
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http://english.berkeley.edu/Postwar/postmodernism.html
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| | ArtLex's Pon-Pq page |
| | Phillip Ritter asked about the shades of difference in the meanings of "postmodern", "postmodernist theory" and "postmodernism". | | | Life magazine's 1950s articles on the abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956), and the silkscreened paintings by Andy Warhol (American, 1928?-1987) of soup cans and celebrities signaled unprecedented fusions between high and low art and the transition to the postmodern age. | | | or Postmodernism - Art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of |
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http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Pon.html
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| | Technorati Tag: postmodernism |
| | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged postmodernism. | | | MSN Shopping: Postmodern Get great deals at MSN Shopping. | | | Related tags: Religion, Literature, postmodern, Politics, Blog, sy, Quotes. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/postmodernism
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| | postmodernism/philosophy links |
| | an Australian take on the church and postmodernity | | | A Collection of Leadership University Articles on Postmodernism | | | a guide to our postmodern context for mainline Christians |
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http://www.faithmaps.org/pomophillinks.htm
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| | Postmodernism |
| | This site offers various resources on Christianity in a postmodern age. | | | This site offers a variety of articles and other resources on Christian faith in a postmodern era. | | | This is the homepage of Leonard Sweet, professor at Drew University who focuses on Christianity, postmodernism, and the future. |
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http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/postmod.htm
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| | Glossary Definition: Postmodernism |
| | A general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. | | | For this reason, postmodernism is highly skeptical of explanations which claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person. | | | In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually. |
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http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/postm-body.html
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| | Encyclopedia of Postmodernism by Taylor, Victor E. ; Winquist, Charles E. |
| | Providing an all-encompassing and welcome addition to the field this encyclopedia contains entries on foundational concepts of postmodernism which have revolutionized thinking in every intellectual discipline. | | | Encyclopedia of Postmodernism by Taylor, Victor E. ; Winquist, Charles E. Discount Books | | | Author: Taylor, Victor E. ; Winquist, Charles E. Title: Encyclopedia of Postmodernism |
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http://bumblebeebooks.com/reference/reference11460.html
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Topic: Postmodernism