Zygmunt Bauman says Postmodernity is best described as Modernity without illusion.

It is important to note that urban planning discourse within Modernity and Postmodernity has developed in different contexts, even though they both grew within a capitalist culture.

A postmodernism of ' reaction ' rejects Modernism and seeks to return to the lost traditions and history in order to create a new cultural synthesis, while Postmodernity of ' resistance ' seeks to deconstruct Modernism and is a critique of the origins without necessarily returning to them ( Irving 1993, 60 ).

Postmodernity ( also spelled post-modernity or termed the postmodern condition ) is generally used to describe the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity.

Postmodernity can mean a personal response to a postmodern society, the conditions in a society which make it postmodern or the state of being that is associated with a postmodern society.

Postmodernity is the state or condition of being postmodern – after or in reaction to that which is modern, as in postmodern art ( see postmodernism ).

Postmodernity, the consequence of holding postmodern ideas, is generally a negative term in this context.

Postmodernity is a condition or a state of being associated with changes to institutions and conditions ( Giddens, 1990 ) and with social and political results and innovations, globally but especially in the West since the 1950s, whereas postmodernism is an aesthetic, literary, political or social philosophy, the " cultural and intellectual phenomenon ", especially since the 1920s ' new movements in the arts.

Postmodernity in the industrialised core is marked by increasing focus on civil rights and equal opportunity as well as movements such as feminism and multiculturalism and the backlash against these movements.

These developments — re-evaluation of the entire Western value system ( love, marriage, popular culture, shift from industrial to service economy ) that took place since the 1950s and 1960s, with a peak in the Social Revolution of 1968 — are described with the term Postmodernity, Influences on postmodern thought, Paul Lützeler ( St. Louis ) as opposed to Postmodernism, a term referring to an opinion or movement.

He has contributed extensive effort to explicating the importance of concepts of Utopianism and Utopia as driving forces in the cultural and intellectual movements of Modernity, and outlining the political and existential uncertainties that may result from the decline or suspension of this trend in the theorized state of Postmodernity.

* Andrew Gibson, Postmodernity, ethics and the novel: from Leavis to Levinas, Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0-415-19895-X, p. 177

Modernity versus Postmodernity.

* Martin Irvine on Postmodernism and Postmodernity in contrast to Modernism and Modernity

The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805 – 1900 ( 2001 ); The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900 – 1950 ( 2003 ); The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity, 1950 – 2005 ( 2006 ).

With William Katerberg, The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition amid Modernity and Postmodernity.

British historian Perry Anderson's history of the term and its understanding, " The Origins of Postmodernity ",

Postmodernity differs here in that it rejects the idea of " reasonable change " while at the same time accepting that the past and its artifacts have as much value as the present.

Postmodernity then represents the culmination of this process where constant change has become the status quo and the notion of progress obsolete.

Postmodernity also exhibits a greater resistance to making sacrifices in the name of progress discernible in environmentalism and the growing importance of the anti-war movement.

Postmodernity can be seen in this light as accepting the messy nature of humanity as unchangeable.

* Lyon, D. ( 1999 ), Postmodernity, 2nd ed, Open University Press, Buckingham.

The Condition of Postmodernity.

Postmodernity.

Positivism, Paradigm and Postmodernity.

* David Harvey ( 1989 ) The Condition of Postmodernity.

Postmodernity: Christian identity in a fragmented age.

* Anderson, Perry ( 1998 ) The Origins of Postmodernity.

* Harvey, David ( 1990 ) The Condition of Postmodernity.

* Ihab Hassan, From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: the Local / Global Context ( 2000 ), text online.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

It indicates the same thing but it is meant to pertain more specifically to establishments designed to cater to smaller type boats such as outboards.

And our question is, is such an implication consistent with what we meant??

And if we can see that what we meant to say remains the same, while the feeling varies from intensity to near zero, it is not the feeling that we primarily meant to express.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

That is, if he marks as most correct a reading not meant for him, the total experimental score falls.

Just what is meant by `` spirit '' and by `` matter ''??

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

It is worth mentioning that the Nepōhualtzintzin amounted to the rank from 10 to the 18 in floating point, which calculated stellar as well as infinitesimal amounts with absolute precision, meant that no round off was allowed, when translated into modern computer arithmetic.

The goal of clear concise communication is that the receiver ( s ) have no misunderstanding about what was meant to be conveyed.

Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

In law, it is generally meant to state specifically and in detail what one did and for what reason, often in relation to commission of a crime.

Data for arable land are not meant to indicate the amount of land that is potentially cultivable.

An approach to defining what is meant by area is through axioms.

This convention is not meant to imply that the nuclei necessarily occur in neutral atoms.

" It is difficult to know exactly what Alfred meant by this.

The first is what Gildas meant by saying Ambrosius ' family " had worn the purple ".

The second question is the meaning of the word avita: Gildas could have meant " ancestors ", or intended it to mean more specifically " grandfather " — thus indicating Ambrosius lived about a generation before the Battle of Mons Badonicus.

An automatic number announcement circuit ( ANAC ) is a special telephone number that is meant to be used by phone company technicians and other telecommunications technicians to determine the phone number of a particular line.