1. POSTMODERNISM CRISTINA DEAN 5A

2. What is Postmodernism? Postmodernism is hard to define because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas: Art Architecture Philosophy Music Film Literature Sociology Communications Technology It is also hard to define a precise date for its beginning (1960s)

3. Modernism Postmodernism = the return and revision of Modernism Characteristics: REJECTION OF THE OLD VICTORIAN STANDARDS 1910-1930 IMPRESSIONISM SUBJECTIVITY OMNISCIENT THIRD-PERSON NARRATORS FRAGMENTATION IS SOMETHING TRAGIC REFLEXIVITY SPONTANEITY DISCOVERY IN CREATION MODERN SCIENCE: EINSTEIN’S RELATIVITY THEORY UNIVERSAL TRUTHS ESSENTIALITY ELITIST COHERENCE

4. Postmodernism FRAGMENTATION IS CELEBRATED 1960s NEW VISION OF THE POSITION OF MAN IN THE SOCIETY AND IN THE WORLD POSTMODERN SCIENCE: QUANTUM THEORY CHAOS DOES NOT BELIEVE IN ONE SINGLE TRUTH DECONSTRUCTION SCEPTICISM KALEIDOSCOPE OF CULTURES INCOHERENCE RIFLEXIVITY

5. Modernism and Postmodernism are cultural formations that accompany particular stages of CAPITALISM (according to Frederic Jameson) MODERNISM Late 1800 – mid 1900 MONOPOLY CAPITALISM CENTRALIZED ELECTRIC AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS POSTMODERNISM Mid 1900 - now MULTINATIONAL OR CONSUMER CAPITALISM DECENTRALIZED NUCLEAR AND ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES

6. Knowledge MODERNISM POSTMODERNISM SCIENCE GOOD FOR ITS OWN SAKE KNOWLEDGE BECOMES FUNCTIONAL (UTILITY) SKILLS AND TRAINING Transformation in the modes of knowledge production and distribution THE EMERGENCE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

7. Politics MODERNISM POSTMODERNISM CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPICAL GROUPS A DESIRE TO RETURN TO THE PRE- POSTMODERN ERA (MODERN/HUMANIST/ENLIGHTENMENT) LIBERALS AND RADICALS (including feminist theories) FRAGMENTATION AND MULTIPLICITY TENDS MOTTO “THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY”