Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism.

Some argue that Lyotard's theories may seem self-contradictory because The Postmodern Condition seems to offer its own grand narrative in the story of the decline of the metanarrative.

* Postmodern theory: An approach that is critical of modernism, with a mistrust of grand theories and ideologies.

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.

Postmodern theorists rejected modernist claims that there was one theoretical approach that explained all aspects of society.

Postmodern art holds that all stances are unstable and insincere, and therefore irony, parody, and humor are the only positions that cannot be overturned by critique or revision.

Postmodern authors tend to celebrate chance over craft, and further employ metafiction to undermine the writer's authority.

* Freire, Paulo ( 1997 ) " Mentoring the mentor: a critical dialogue with Paulo Freire ", Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, Vol 60, 1997, ISBN 0-8204-3798-0

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 ).

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

For convenient access to many of Ritzer ’ s substantive contributions to modern and postmodern social theorizing, see Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization ( 2001 ) as well as more recent work often co-authored with his many students, such as ( with J. Michael Ryan ) “ Postmodern Social Theory and Sociology: On Symbolic Exchange with a ‘ Dead ’ Theory ,” in Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical Debates ( 2007 ).

#" Jen ’ s World and Town, a Female Bildungsroman Novel of Postmodern Humanism.

* A Survey of the European New Right New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe by Michael O ’ Meara

Postmodern education should emphasize works not in the canon ; it should focus on the achievements of non-whites, females, and the poor ; it should highlight the historical crimes of whites, males, and the rich ; and it should teach students that science ’ s method has no better claim to yielding truth than any other method and, accordingly, that students should be equally receptive to alternative ways of knowing.

P. G. ‘ The Postmodern Sublime: Kant and Tony Smith ’ s Anecdote of the Cube ’.

“ Narrative, Ethics, and Postmodern Art in Siri Hustvedt ’ s What I Loved .” In Ethics in Culture: The Dissemination of Values through Literature and Other Media, edited by Astrid Erll, Herbert Grabes and Angsar Nünning.

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

Postmodern philosophy has strong relations with the substantial literature of critical theory.

The idea of critical regionalism emerged at a time during the early 1980s when Postmodern architecture, itself a reaction to Modernist architecture, was at its height.

In his book Postmodern Geographies: the reassertion of space in critical social theory ( 1989 ), Edward W. Soja describes the hotel as " a concentrated representation of the restructured spatiality of the late capitalist city: fragmented and fragmenting, homogeneous and homogenizing, divertingly packaged yet curiously incomprehensible, seemingly open in presenting itself to view but constantly pressing to enclose, to compartmentalize, to circumscribe, to incarcerate.

While the term " Postmodern " and its derivatives are freely used, with some uses apparently contradicting others, those outside the academic milieu have described it as merely a buzzword that means nothing.

Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath.

# Postmodern dance falls under two catergories due to its complex nature ( see Postmodernism ).

Lasting from the 1960s to the 1970s the main thrust of Postmodern dance was relatively short lived but its legacy lives on in contemporary dance ( a blend of modernism and postmodernism ) and the rise of postmodernist choreographic processes that have produced a wide range of dance works in varying styles.

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.

The main periods of 20th century literature are captured in the bipartite division, Modernist literature and Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1945 to 1980 respectively, divided, as a rule of thumb, by World War II.

The main building was designed by chief architect Rocco Magnoli in Postmodern architecture style in a broad interpretation of Neoclassical architecture.

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.

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 and poststructuralist thought question the very grounds on which Western cultures have based their ' truths ': absolute knowledge and meaning, a ' decentralization ' of authorship, the accumulation of positive knowledge, historical progress, and certain ideals and practices of humanism and the Enlightenment.

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 )

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

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.