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Postmodernism has received significant criticism for its lack of stable definition and meaning. The term marks a departure from modernism, and may refer to an epoch of human history (see Postmodernity), a set of movements, styles, and methods in art and architecture, or a broad range of scholarship, drawing influence from scholarly fields such as critical theory, post-structuralist philosophy ...
As communication theory studies the technical process of information and the process of human communication, postmodern communications are the newly created tools and marketplaces that allow these communications to happen. [3] Most thinking around the postmodern communication and marketing model is driven from an early 1990s scholastic journal ...
Although a product of modernism, and although many of the progenitors of Critical Theory were skeptical of postmodernism, Critical Theory is one of the major components of both modern and postmodern thought, and is widely applied in the humanities and social sciences today. [6] [7] [8]
Postmodernism is more fully understood by observing its effects in society at large, in such diverse fields as law, education, urban planning, religious studies, politics and many others. [160] Its influence varies widely across disciplines, reflecting the extent to which postmodern theories and ideas have been integrated into actual practices.
In his 2023 book chapter Paradigms of Cyberculturalism in Post-postmodernity [22] scholar Mehdi Ghasemi introduces Cyberculturalism as the heir of postmodernism and argues that we have moved into a new artistic, literary, social, media and economic period, wherein cyberculture reigns at the crossroads of real and virtual spaces and affects our ...
Early critics important to postmodernism: Søren Kierkegaard; Claude Lévi-Strauss; Friedrich Nietzsche; Ferdinand de Saussure; General: Cultural studies; Gender studies; Hungryalism; List of postmodern novels; List of postmodern writers; Literary theory; Post-colonialism; Poststructuralism; Postmodern literature; Second-wave feminism; Third ...
His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics.
Theories of the Postmodern: 55–66. Surrealism Without the Unconscious: 67–96. Spatial Equivalents in the World System: 97–129. Reading and the Division of Labor: 131–153. Utopianism After the End of Utopia: 154–180. Immanence and Nominalism in Postmodern Theoretical Discourse: 181–259. Postmodernism and the Market: 260–278.