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“Postmodernism, like modernism, follows most of these same ideas, rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasizing pastiche, parody, bricolage,
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| irony, and playfulness. Postmodern art (and thought) favors reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity (especially in narrative structures), ambiguity, simultaneity, and an | |
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| emphasis on the destructured, decentered, dehumanized subject. Postmodernism, in contrast, doesn't lament the idea of fragmentation, provisionality, or incoherence, but rather celebrates that. | |
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| The world is meaningless? Let's not pretend that art can make meaning then, let's just play with nonsense.†Any questions? | |
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| So, you're saying post-modernism is a bunch of hooie? | |
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