7th July 2012
What is Postmodernism?
Postmodernism cannot always be defined as is many people often have different views on what it may be and it is often unclear. It is also a wide range term which is why its hard to define simply.
However, it can be thought to be a late 20th-century style in the arts, architecture and criticism that represents a departure from modernism. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective efforts to explain reality. This is why its hard to define as everyone has different values, cultures and lifestyles which alters their opinion on postmodernism and how they interpret things based on their own human reality.
10th September 2012
Modernism vs. Postmodernism
Below are nsome proposed differences between modernism and post modernism. Its shows the clear contrast between modernism and post modernism thinking.
Modern
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Postmodern
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Reasoning
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From foundation upwards
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Multiple factors of multiple levels of reasoning. Web-oriented.
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Science
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Universal Optimism
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Realism of Limitations
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Part/Whole
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Parts comprise the whole
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The whole is more than the parts
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God
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Acts by violating "natural" laws" or by "immanence" in everything that is
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Top-Down causation
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Language
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Referential
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Meaning in social context through usage
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I found this information on a website which is:
http://anthropology.ua.edu/cultures/cultures.php?culture=Postmodernism and Its Critics
Postmodern theorists
Jean-François Lyotard
22nd October 2012
How are they postmodern?
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