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  2. Postmodernism - Wikipedia

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    Jameson categorizes a variety of features of the postmodern. One is the elision of the distinction between high culture and mass culture. [156] Also, because of our loss of a unified "bourgeois ego", subjectivity is less focused, and we experience what he terms a "waning of the affect", an emotional disengagement from the social world. [157]

  3. Postmodernity - Wikipedia

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    Postmodernity (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. [nb 1] Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century – in the 1980s or early 1990s – and that it was replaced by postmodernity, and still others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by ...

  4. Postmodern literature - Wikipedia

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    Late 19th and early 20th century playwrights whose work influenced the aesthetics of postmodernism include August Strindberg, [9] Luigi Pirandello, [9] and Bertolt Brecht. [10] Another precursor to postmodernism was Dadaism , which challenged the authority of the artist and highlighted elements of chance, whim, parody, and irony. [ 11 ]

  5. Postmodern philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment.

  6. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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    The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: pp. 1–54. 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.

  7. List of postmodern novels - Wikipedia

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    A Universal History of Infamy (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges [1] At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien [ 2 ] The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien [ 3 ]

  8. Late modernism - Wikipedia

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    The return to the traditional art forms of sculpture and painting in the late 1970s and early 1980s seen in the work of neo-expressionist artists such as Georg Baselitz and Julian Schnabel has been described as a postmodern tendency, [52] and one of the first coherent movements to emerge in the postmodern era. [53]

  9. Post-postmodernism - Wikipedia

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    The basic features of what is now called postmodernism can be found as early as the 1940s, most notably in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. [5] However, most scholars today would agree that postmodernism began to compete with modernism in the late 1950s and gained ascendancy over it in the 1960s. [6]