noun
definition
A postmodernist.
adjective
definition
Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism.
Examples of postmodern in a Sentence
Nevertheless, he has been regarded as one of the few postmodern game designers.
The postmodern critique reminds us all that the future is not in the past!
I believe in the critical potential of music as a living cultural practice and reject the pessimistic postmodern cynicism of the 1980s.
This is part of the postmodern critique of 1970s feminism.
That is a classic postmodern deconstruction of a passage of the Bible.
Subjectivity is fractured and connects with others, but Haraway does not lose the agency - as often happens in postmodern discourse.
Some examples of his most famous roles from that period reflects an eclecticism and connection with a postmodern idea of history.
Rather than reversing the dualism, postmodern feminism seeks to dissolve the distinction.
As Gertrude Himmelfarb points out, postmodern multiculturalism has the pernicious effect to demean and dehumanize the people who are the subjects of history.
His most recent books include Orientalism, The A to Z of Postmodern Life and the co-authored international bestseller Why Do People Hate America?
The purpose of this meeting was to explore postmodern generational issues and their effect on the world mission movement.
Lyotard defines the postmodern as the process of developing a new epistemology that responds to new conditions of knowledge (Kellner 1990 ).
His research interests include postmodern and contemporary literature and literary theory.
Knowing these images are empty makes the practice postmodern.
What does Lyotard mean when he claims that ' a work can become modern only if it is first postmodern '?
He lives in New York City where he edits the online journal, eratio postmodern poetry.
Certainly there should have been a chapter on Hayden White, the most significant historian who might qualify for the adjective ' postmodern ' .
The qualities for which he is celebrated by today's postmodern cultural magpies are the very ones that cost him half his career.
Here Halsey's own perspective, of what I take to be a postmodern relativism, comes to the fore.
Where appropriate, he relates classical semiotics thinking to the highly mediated, postmodern world of mass communication.
This position (or collection of positions) include those associated, broadly speaking, with a postmodern sensibility.
The module then considers examples of literary texts which exemplify a postmodern outlook on reality (or, on ' reality ' ).
Anyhow, CWV warrior looks at Christianity 's cultural mandate and Church leadership in the postmodern relativistic quagmire in this post.
In this postmodern free-for-all it is hard to envision much of a sacerdotal role for the literary scholar.
The module then considers examples of literary texts which exemplify a postmodern outlook on reality (or, on ' reality ').
Gehry is an architect, famed for his postmodern, sculptural style, and his beautiful watches for Fossil reflect his background.
It then proceeds to discuss examples of literary texts and two films that incorporate postmodern perspectives in order to call those perspectives into question.
Contrary to postmodern critique, Mozart's contemporaries rejected disembodied metaphysics.