Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.