Throughout this series of blogposts, I have tried to examine the meanings of multiple different texts through the postmodernist framework. However, I must remind you that postmodernism is essentially the elusiveness of one profound truth or meaning portrayed in a text. This is why I must conclude that all of the texts I have mentioned can and should be seen in a multitude of lights and should be interpreted in any way- or simply not at all as the meaning can be interpreted as these pieces not having a specific meaning. With this I will leave you with a quick preview of what is theorized to come post postmodernism.
Modernism vs. Postmodernism
-Modernism attempts to reveal profound truths while postmodernism rejects the concept of one singular truth
-modernism= depth-deep meaning
-postmodernism= surface level-avoids suggesting underlying meanings
Potential Problems with Postmodernism:
- The use of stylistic masks can create texts without true meaning- the meaning becomes about what it mimics
- over saturation of content- may feel like there is nothing new to create or worth creating
- It focuses on dystopia issues without coming up with solutions to the problems mentioned
Today: The postmodernist perspective is giving way to meta-modernism, or post-postmodernism. It essentially takes postmodernism as fact and believes interaction with complex text necessary to participating in our modern globally connected culture.
Postmodern with a captital P 