Monday, January 25, 2010
Post Modernism : the definition
Our question of the week for generalities would be to define Postmodernism, which in a sense is quite strange. In fact defining postmodernism under one solid d efinition would be against the fundamental ideals of Postmodernism itself! This would be creating one transcendental "postmodernism" thus creating a meta narrative that modernist oh so hated. Good old wikipedia defines postmodernism as Postmodernism is an aesthetic, literary, political or social philosophy, which was the basis of the attempt to describe a condition, or a state of being, or something concerned with changes to institutions and conditions (as in Giddens, 1990); and because this is a meta narrative created by Giddens or the writer of the wikipedia article this in a postmodern view would be correct as well as any other definition that i would concoct myself. I see postmodernism as the attempt to deconstruct any modernistic or any transcendental view that attempts to cover all of the other local narratives.(this is unfinished, and i will continue after asking mr. dominguez the question)
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HAHA. LOL!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great point! I agree too but I did my blog so I answered the question. So i'm failing you Pavin. My bad.
Well, I would like to see what you have in store.
Not to be nit-picky, but your blog is not exactly 300 words, you slacker!! You shouldn't use Dominguez as an excuse! Anyway, I think it is funny that we both looked up postmodernism on Wikipedia. I didn't use it in my blog, but i did look it up. Also I think it is interesting that you say that it goes against the ideals of postmodernism to try and explain postmodernism as a dictionary definition. I don't quite understand your evidence of that, but I'm sure it is true because you know much more about postmodernism than I do. I also like the thought of postmodernism being the attempt to deconstruct any modernist views. This helped me understand the concept of postmodernism much better than I did before. Now it actually makes sense to me. Thank you for clearing that up for me, but try to write more because I really do not have that much to comment on on this blog, and I want my points >.<
ReplyDeletei agree with your short blog.. ahem ahem.. im just kidding what matters most is content and your blog was full of it.. content that is, not what you were thinking im not mean. At least your blog wasn't a novel again. i think jessica would agree lol
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