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Post Modernism Is Everywhere

 

The term postmodernism has been widely used for three decades. It started as an academic category related to certain developments in arts but immediately the term spread to show all sorts, shifts and changes in contemporary society and culture. By the mid-1980s, the term postmodernism had fully blossomed extensively in most of areas such as architecture, politic, literature, etc. Nowadays, it is not taken as a new concept. It has been included in humanities courses in the Western world. And it has been found to be the part of everyday speech all over the world.

Some major points belonging to postmodernism are given below.

 

1.                      Multiplying meanings: postmodernism is not, strictly speaking, a school of thought. It is not a unified intellectual movement with a define goal or perspective. It does not have a single dominant theoretician. The ideas about postmodernism have been taken from every discipline. Each area has its own term. Postmodernism has been increased. The meaning of post modernism in one discipline may be different from its meaning in other discipline. The concept of postmodernism has been complicated because there are multiple postmodernisms in existence. It is also a controversial subject in academic books. It has developed, ironically, a popular culture. Nowadays it has substantially contributed to a range of social and cultural transformations. It is hard to get to its bottom.

2.                      A flexible term: postmodernism is a very flexible term. Perhaps three is a little truth in it. postmodernism can be:

i    an actual state of affairs in society.

 

ii.       the set of ideas which tries to define or explain this state of affairs.

 

iii.    an artistic style, or an approach to the making of things.

 

iv.    a word used in different contexts to cover many different aspects of all the above.

 

In addition to the above-written ways of thinking about postmodernism, there can be others, too. Postmodernism is the set of concepts and debates about postmodernism itself.

3.                   New times: Although postmodernism is greatly flexible, it is not meaningless. It has the connotations of obscurity(insignificance)and elitism connected to so-called intellectual origin.

There are multiple themes of postmodernism in the new times. Some of them are.

 

i.                                                             Present society, culture and life style are different from the past ones.

 

ii.                                                        The themes are concerned with concrete subjects like the development in mass media, the consumer society and information technology.

iii.                                                  The development of these concrete subjects have an impact on our understanding of more abstract matters such as meaning identity and reality.

iv.                                                    These themes claim that old styles of analysis are no longer useful. Therefore, new approaches and new vocabularies need to be created in order to understand the present.