In an interview with Anglistik Gass commented on the subject of his genre and form defying works, laughing off the title " Postmodern ," and coining himself " Late " or " Decayed Modern "

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.

* How To Deconstruct Almost Anything-My Postmodern Adventure by Chip Morningstar ; a cynical introduction to ' deconstruction ' from the perspective of a software engineer.

" Postmodernist " describes part of a movement ; " Postmodern " places it in the period of time since the 1950s, making it a part of contemporary history.

This period is known as the Postmodern era ; though there's no widely agreed upon central definition of Postmodernism, many themes and techniques commonly identified as Postmodern are nearly identical to Surrealism.

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.

* " 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.

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.

Postmodern art sees the blurring between the high and fine arts with low-end and commercial art ; modern art started to experiment with this blurring.

Postmodern art blurred these distinctions, bringing a strong element of kitsch, commercialism and campness into contemporary fine art ; what is nowadays seen as fine art may have been seen as low art before postmodernism revolutionised the concept of what high or fine art truly is.

; and also from dance-specific practices, drawing from Modern and Postmodern dance, as well as Eastern movement philosophy and practice such as Yoga and Martial Arts.

A. Clines, " Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation in an International Perspective ", in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967 – 1998, Volume 1 ( JSOTSup, 292 ; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998 ), pp. 46 – 68 See Section 6, Future Trends in Biblical Interpretation, overview of some current trends in biblical criticism.

Postmodern American Poetry is a 1994 poetry anthology edited by Paul Hoover ; it is a Norton anthology published by W. W. Norton & Company.

# 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 ).

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.

Postmodern, anti-racist, feminist, postcolonial, and queer theories all play a role in further explaining Freire ’ s ideas of critical pedagogy, shifting its main focus on social class to include issues pertaining to religion, military identification, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity, and age.

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.

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 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 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 )

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 novelists such as John Barth and Thomas Pynchon operate with even more freedom, mixing historical characters and settings with invented history and fantasy, as in the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon respectively.

Postmodern architectural taste includes, in fact, historical elements, like column, capital or tympanum.

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 ).

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 ).

#" 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

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.