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Sociocultural anthropology has been heavily influenced by structuralist and postmodern theories, as well as a shift toward the analysis of modern societies.

In the wake of postmodern literature, critics such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have examined the role and relevance of authorship to the meaning or interpretation of a text.

Another view, as important to the philosophy of art as " beauty ," is that of the " sublime ," elaborated upon in the twentieth century by the postmodern philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.

Cyberpunk is a postmodern science fiction genre noted for its focus on " high tech and low life.

" It may not have attracted the " real punks ," but it did ensnare many new readers, and it provided the sort of movement that postmodern literary critics found alluring.

) " New global cuisine: the perspective of postmodern gastronomy studies.

Among Western historians, it conflicts with the postmodern impulse which is skeptical of great narratives.

In this sense, postcolonial literature may be considered a branch of postmodern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires.

While modernist critical theory ( as described above ) concerns itself with “ forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system ,” postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems “ by situating them in historical and cultural contexts, to implicate themselves in the process of collecting and analyzing data, and to relativize their findings ” ( Lindlof & Taylor, 2002, p. 52 ).

Instead, in their research and writing, many postmodern scholars have adopted “ alternatives that encourage reflection about the ‘ politics and poetics ’ of their work.

Both strands were often present in the various modalities of postmodern theory.

* An example of critical postmodern work is Rolling, Jr., J. H. ( 2008 ).

Secular blasphemy: Utter ( ed ) transgressions against names and fathers in the postmodern era.

Some theorists argue that Dada was actually the beginning of postmodern art.

In " Deconstructing History ", Alun Munslow examines history in what he argues is a postmodern age.

It would not be unfair to call it postmodern evangelicalism.

The closing years of the 20th century saw controversial postmodern influences entering some parts of evangelicalism, particularly with the emerging church movement.

The postmodern intersubjectivity of the 21st century has seen a new interest in fantasy as a form of interpersonal communication.

The changes under critical geography have led to contemporary approaches in the discipline such as Feminist geography, New cultural geography, and the engagement with postmodern and post structural theories and philosophies.

Invincible to human intervention, Satan became the villain in many horror films with a postmodern style and a dystopian worldview.

Heiner Müller's cutting-edge drama " The Hamletmachine " was first produced in Paris by director Jean Jourdheuil in 1979 and swiftly became a classic of postmodern drama.

His poetry is not as highly critically esteemed as his fiction, although some critics place him as the first modernist poet in the United States ; others would assert that his work more strongly suggest what today would be a postmodern view.

Necmettin Erbakan, was the first Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey elected in 1996, but was removed from power by a 1997 military memorandum ( Turkey ) | " postmodern coup d ' état " in 1997.

This story also is a direct illustration of one of the tenets of postmodern theory — that the sign is not the thing it signifies, nor can one claim to fully or properly describe a thing or an idea with a word or other symbol.

Approaching the issue from a structuralist and narratological point of view, he has defined irrealism as a " peculiar mode of postmodern allegory " that has resulted from modernity ’ s fragmentation and dismantling of the well-ordered and coherent medieval system of symbol and allegory.