What is "postmodern"

Usage examples of "postmodern".

Lucianic tradition includes, among others, Erasmus, More, Rabelais, Swift, Sterne, Diderot, Peacock, Jean Paul Richter, Machado de Assis, and such postmodern figures as Borges, Rushdie, and Kundera.

On the one hand, marketing practices and consumer consumption are prime terrain for developing postmodernist thinking: certain postmodernist theorists, for example, see perpetual shopping and the consumption of commodities and commodified images as the paradigmatic and defining activities of postmodern experience, our collective journeys through hyperreality.

In the postmodern world, the ruling spectacle of Empire is constructed through a variety of self-legitimating discourses and structures.

Their givenness and everydayness -- rather than any cycle of shock and habituation -- is the trademark of the new, postmodern urbanism.

He and V had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a galley kitchen, and a living room that was decorated in a winsome, postmodern, Frat-House-Basement style: a pair of leather couches, plasma-screen high-def TV, foosball table, gym bags everywhere.

However, that deep-rooted, plenitudinous I-centered subject of awe is a far cry from postmodern conceptions of the self as, typically, the tenuous construct of intersecting culture codes.

I learn to read and write in a new way, one more suited to a postmodern, postliterate culture.

No sense of existential bss, no postmodern grief for the death of the American value system, not even the religio-psychological guilt of Western man.

Put differently, multiculturalism is a noble attempt to move to the integral-aperspectival structure, but, like many postmodern poststructural-ists, it thoroughly confuses the fact that no perspective is final with the notion that all perspectives are therefore simply equal.

We saw that the significant insight of the postmodern poststructuralists was that meaning is context-determined and contexts are boundless.

Marxist and techno-economic factors in the generation of worldviews, and an introduction to currents in postmodern thought, as set in the context of the spectrum overview.

All sorts of theorists, from deep ecologists to social critics, from ecofeminists to postmodern poststructuralists, have found the notion of hierarchy not only undesirable but a bona fide cause of much social domination, oppression, and injustice.

Below the postmodern fripperies of its entrance, down in the railway station at its base, a train discharged its next batch of commuters.

Stephenson is widely considered a standard-bearer of hip, postmodern science fiction, he often resorts to one of the hoariest of genre techniques: the infodump.

American universities, with individuals like Stanley Fish, that dimmest of the postmodern dim bulbs, leading the way.