INFILTEC: HUMOR:How to Speak and Write Postmodern.
Here is a quick guide, then, to speaking and writing postmodern. First, you need to remember that plainly expressed language is out of the question. It is too realist, modernist and obvious. Postmodern language requires that one uses play, parody, and indeterminacy as critical techniques to point this out.
This brings me to a second important strategy in speaking postmodern, which is to use as many suffixes, prefixes, hyphens, slashes, underlinings and anything else your computer (an absolute must to write postmodern) can dish out.
As you can see, modernism is more complex than traditional writing, where there is usually one narrator (third person typically) whose job it is to “explain” everything to the reader. Background is just that, background. The writing is in chronological order and all loose ends are tied up for you in the end.
While the cultural and sociological landscape of White Noise is situated primarily in a postmodern world, the town of Blacksmith, the city that the Gladney’s call home, seems to occupy a space between modernism and postmodernism.
Postmodern literature is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference.
However, many agree that, in literature, postmodernism represents the rejection of the modernist tenets of rational, historical, and scientific thought in favor of self-conscious, ironic, and experimental works. In many of these works, the authors abandon the concept of an ordered universe, linear narratives.
Postmodern Literature Resources. Introduction to Postmodernism Put together by Purdue University's English department, this useful overview of postmodernism includes a general intro, a glossary of terms and concepts, and modules on some key theorists (Jean Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, and Linda Hutcheon), along with lesson plans and examples of postmodernism in action.
But postmodern writing is intentionally obscurantist. And that's the point. Postmodern thinkers are focused on the means, and often denigrate or at least pay no mind to the idea of a text's end (i.e. it's singular, transcendental interpretation).
Postmodernity applies to postmodern CULTURE.. Most academics writing about the postmodern condition agree that it is very difficult to define. Many of the people whose ideas are described as 'postmodern' do not necessarily use the term themselves. This makes it hard to date, but it is generally said to have begun in the years after WWII but.
The Postmodern Frame.. Start with the differences you can see, and write as much as you can. You should then read a little bit about the artists, and the conventions of art at the time they were working. The links below will direct you to some information on each work.
Postmodern dance is a 20th century concert dance form. A reaction to the compositional and presentation constraints of modern dance, postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance composition.
It will begin with a discussion on the definition of postmodernism by exploring its relationship to modernism, existentialism, poststructuralism and postmodern philosophy. Main ideas and theories of the representative postmodern thinkers, like Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan, will be introduced and will mainly.
Posted to alt.humor.best-of-usenet by Andrew C Bulhak on 20 June 1995, found in alt.postmodern. HOW TO SPEAK AND WRITE POSTMODERN by Stephen Katz, Associate Professor, Sociology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Postmodernism has been the buzzword in academia for the last decade.
