Postmodern / poststructuralist thinkers also express a skepticism about any all-encompassing metaphysical scheme.

Key themes of the emerging church are couched in the language of reform, Praxis-oriented lifestyles, Post-evangelical thought, and incorporation or acknowledgment of political and Postmodern elements.

Postmodern theology seeks to respond to the challenges of post modern and deconstructionist thought, and has included the death of God movement, Process Theology, Feminist theology and Queer Theology and most importantly Neo-orthodox Theology.

Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, in their book critiquing postmodern thought ( Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals ' Abuse of Science, 1997 ), criticize Luce Irigaray on several grounds.

Artists who align with Postmodern thought.

It is more often thought of as a work of Postmodern literature, as evidenced by its inclusion in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

Hal Foster attempted to portray the reaction against beauty and Modernist art in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture.

* Lewis, Bob. Devo: The First Postmodern Band, essay on Devo history at Kent State

Postmodern music, on the other hand, shares characteristics with postmodernist art — that is, art that comes after and reacts against modernism ( see Modernism in Music ).

His writings have had a major influence on the larger body of Postmodern academic literature.

* Gosselin, Paul ( 2012 ) Flight From the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West.

* Lyotard, Jean-François ( 1984 ) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge ( ISBN 0-8166-1173-4 )

" The Celebration of Beethoven ’ s Bicentennial in 1970: The Antiauthoritarian Movement and Its Impact on Radical Avant-garde and Postmodern Music in West Germany ".

Postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon, who was also influenced by Beat fiction, experimented since the 1960s with the surrealist idea of startling juxtapositions ; commenting on the " necessity of managing this procedure with some degree of care and skill ", he added that " any old combination of details will not do.

Postmodern researchers therefore embarked on analyzing discourses such as texts, language, policies and practices.

* Jean-François Lyotard – The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Postmodern sociology can be said to focus on conditions of life which became increasingly prevalent in the late 20th century in the most industrialized nations, including the ubiquity of mass media and mass production, the rise of a global economy and a shift from manufacturing to service economies.

He published " La Condition postmoderne: Rapport sur le savoir " ( The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge ) ( 1979 )

The Postmodern Condition: A report on knowledge.

Most famously, in La Condition postmoderne: Rapport sur le savoir ( The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge ) ( 1979 ), he proposes what he calls an extreme simplification of the " postmodern " as an ' incredulity towards meta-narratives '.

* The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.

* The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge ( The first 5 chapters )

* " A Postmodern ' Play ' on a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Classic: Reinaldo Arenas's La Loma del Angel ," By: H. J. Manzari, Decimonónica: Journal of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Cultural Production, 2006 Summer ; 3 ( 2 ): 45-58.

In 1979 Jean-François Lyotard wrote a short but influential work The Postmodern Condition: A report on knowledge.

In The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge ( 1979 ), Lyotard highlights the increasing skepticism of the postmodern condition toward the totalizing nature of metanarratives and their reliance on some form of " transcendent and universal truth ":

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.

Part of the reason for the confusion over the term Critical Regionalism is that Frampton's famous essay " Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance " was first published in the book " The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture " ( 1983 ) edited by Hal Foster.

Postmodern critical research is also characterized by what is called, the crisis of representation, which rejects the idea that a researcher ’ s work is considered an “ objective depiction of a stable other ” ( Lindlof & Taylor, 2002, p. 53 ).

Postmodern also brought a break from the notion that planning and architecture could result in social reform, which was an integral dimension of the plans of Modernism ( Simonsen 1990 ).

Literary postmodernism was officially inaugurated in the United States with the first issue of boundary 2, subtitled " Journal of Postmodern Literature and Culture ", which appeared in 1972.

In 1971, the Arab-American scholar Ihab Hassan published The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature, an early work of literary criticism from a postmodern perspective, in which the author traces the development of what he calls " literature of silence " through Marquis de Sade, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Beckett, and many others, including developments such as the Theatre of the Absurd and the nouveau roman.

Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical direction which is critical of the foundational assumptions and structures of philosophy.

Postmodern philosophy is skeptical or nihilistic toward many of the values and assumptions of philosophy that derive from modernity, such as humanity having an essence which distinguishes humans from animals, or the assumption that one form of government is demonstrably better than another.

Postmodern art is noted for the way in which it blurs the distinctions between what is perceived as fine or high art and what is generally seen as low or kitsch art.

Postmodern pastiche of Chandler in which the protagonist shares his name with Marlowe.

Postmodern art, for instance, places a strong emphasis on irony, parody and humour in general ; modern art started to develop a more ironic approach to art which would later advance in a postmodern context.

* Rothstein, Mikael, Hagiography and Text in the Aetherius Society: Aspects of the Social Construction of a Religious Leader, an article which appeared in the book New Religions in a Postmodern World edited by Mikael Rothstein and Reender Kranenborg, RENNER Studies in New religions, Aarhus University press, ISBN 87-7288-748-6

Postmodern Christianity is any form of Christianity which has been influenced by postmodern philosophy.

Professor Douglas Kellner in his book Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern commented that the video depicted motifs and strategies which helped Madonna in her journey to become a star.

# Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier By: Spurgeon, Sara L .. College Station, TX: Texas A & M UP ; 2005.

He is author of On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement ( 1987 ) and Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War ( 1992 ); editor of International Theory: Critical Investigations ( 1995 ) and The Virilio Reader ( 1998 ); co-editor with Michael Shapiro of International / Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics ( 1989 ); Global Voices: Dialogues In International Relations ( with others ) ( 1993 ); and, Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network ( 2001 ; 2nd edition, 2009 ).