If an untutored mind such as mine found the article interesting what does that say about the slaggers?
I would like to thank the author for a thoroughly informative article.
Post modernism has been a bit of a mystery to me, that said I am beginning to grasp it, a little.
Anyone got more I could read and understand as readily?
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fluff there is no agreement on what post modernism is. Much of it depends on the subject matter in which you are discussing , ie art, architecture, politics, sociology , philosophy , religion , literature - mainly the soft sciences and the humanities. For the most part post modernism is a reaction to so called modernism which is highly structural and absolute such as science or the idea of right and wrong , the idea of truth and lies.

All of it wether modernist or post modernist, is extremely contradictory and it will become confusing where modernism ends and post modernism starts as neither are fair examples of the nature of things.

As an introduction I would not recommend buying a book, leave Michel Foucalt until later , but browse both modernism and post modernism under different topics on the internet to get a little insight into what it is actually about.

I suspect it is insightful drivel like my post here, good luck some of it is a good read :) As Ian Dury once said "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bas*@#ds ".

This is a really late post but I've just read over this. I have a very basic idea of what postmodernism is. I understand some of the concepts, but haven't read much.

And I understood perfectly what both of these articles are saying.

How is it half of you could not? I'm self educated. I read a little of everything but don't know a lot of anything. The article was fine.

Seems to me like any time an article mentions pomo nowadays the knee jerk reaction is to call it semantic gymnastics and dismiss its point on the basis of absurdity?

Ignorance is no excuse for rejection people. Maybe you should read up a little on what it is you're trying to reject. TRY and understand it before writing it off. And I'm not a proponent of postmodernism, but I am a proponent of the critical mind.