Postmodernism?

Question

Anybody can explain the characteristic of Postmodernism in really really plain and easy English?
and give an example.......

Answer 1

Modernism is the idea that European rationality and capitalism are the best solutions to all human problems. There is only "One right way" to do things.

Postmodernsim says that things aren't going so great. It came about after World War I and took off after World War II. World War I witnessed chemical and biological/nerve weapons and human carnage not seen since the Mongols. World War II saw the dawn of a nuclear arms race, of which now we don't know where 14,000 Russian nuclear weapons are.

Postmodernism says that rationality and capitalism have brought more war and greater destruction, therefore more misery to human existence.

It also says that part of the problem is that there is no "Truth" with a capital "T." Rather, if there is a "Truth," we really can't know it because we're just human, and what true for me is not true for you. For example, Israel was invented as the "solution" for the "Jewish Problem," which came after Hitler's "Final Solution." For a Jew, they aren't a problem at all, rather anti-Semitism is the problem.

Postmodernism also says that there is no "one right way" to do things. For example, the World Bank and the IMF have made the economic situations worse in most of the countries that they have tried to help.

Postmodernism come "after and beyond" modernism because the say that modernism is not the final world.

There are other voices that need to be heard. There needs to be a dialogue and not a monologue.

Answer 2

postmodernism, even in academia is a much debated and critisised concept. postmodernism first emerged in art and architecture before it influenced literature and academics.
in order to understand postmodernism its important to understand modernism and its influence. modernism was born out of the scientific revolution and its pillars were rationality and order! but, to define this you have to create its opposite! so automatically (with colonialism and imperialism as its influences) anything non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual, non-hygienic, non-rational, (etc.) becomes part of "disorder," and had to be eliminated from the ordered, rational modern society. this has unconsciously influenced almost everything we saw around us in the quest for superiority of "order." postmodernism is a challenge to this. it believes in 'deconstruction' of concepts and 'official discourses' in other words, stripping it down to its basics in order to understand it at all levels. It represents different ways of ‘seeing, knowing and representing the world’ i.e. it rejects singular explanation for multiplicity or pluralism.
however, postmodernism is constantly evolving. it is versitile and flexible to understand change and is not rigid in principles. thats the miracle of it. so in terms of criticism there are plenty, but in time people (i'm hoping) would come around to seeing what it can actually do.

Answer 3

Post = after
modern = today
ism = action

after todays action

Answer 4

yes