| 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.
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