Postmodernism

A community portal about Postmodernism with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Postmodernism is an idea that has been extremely controversial and difficult to define among scholars, intellectuals, and historians, because the term implies to many that the modern historical period has passed. Nevertheless, most agree that postmodern ideas have influenced philosophy, art, critical theory, literature, architecture, design, marketing/business, interpretation of history, and culture since the late 20th century.

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Families at the Crossroads: Postmodernity

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From: www.christianimagination.com

We live in times of incredibly rapid and prolific changes. People, products, ideas and cultures meet, mingle and mutate at dazzling speed. (Clapp, 17) In the first chapter of Clapp’s book, he highlights an aspect of our postmodern world not actually mentioned. Part of the reason we are in a postmodern age is because technological change, communication advances, speed, and globalization have made made it difficult to slow down, difficult to be isolated. We are confronted with ideas and points of view from all over the place. The modern world, profoundly shaped by the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, was based on a deep faith in unaided ... Read Full Story

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Postmodernism and Architecture

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From: mardukgroup.blogspot.com

What is postmodernism? Are the postmodern characteristics still apparent in contemporary architectural design? According to scholars, “Postmodernism, by definition resists definition”. If postmodernism is then difficult to be defined, on what principles can one judge if postmodernism in architecture is in still emerging? Postmodernism in its regional/vernacular forms reflects neighborhood culture. Some argue that postmodernism is a reaction to the forces of “creative destruction.” But it can be a tool for those powers as well. The end of the assembly line, created by the instant flexibility of computer technology, means that in this post-Fordist world people can all have a unique, neighborhood specific thing, ... Read Full Story

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Diagnosis Psuedo

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From: interstuff.wordpress.com

Just recently, I’ve had a bit of time to hang around at home , which brings with it the inevitable horrors of daytime TV. 70s actors and singers iterviewing 70s actors and singers (and Gary Wilmot ) for the most part. But a curious realization has dawned on me of late. Diagnosis Murder is a post-modern masterpiece on a par with Amarcord. I only noticed this because today, Quincy turned up. Ok cool, so we’ve got the expanded universe blurring the l ine between fictional realities , but what was cool was the fact that they changed the whole show so it revolved around ... Read Full Story

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Bernard Tschumi’s Blue residential tower

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From: myitthings.com

Anyone living in NYC have noticed the new glass towers that are rising in our city in every vacant space available. They are beautiful in a way, they are, I love them. But how many of them can you see a day ? I heard they have one major flaw, living in them require an exhibitionist owner or a constant living behind the curtain which kind of kill the fun of living in a glass apartment full of light and view... Well it seems Bernard Tschumi got a better idea and figured there is no need to go "all the way" and designed this ... Read Full Story

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Concerning Faith, Doubt & Certainty: The Failure of Postmodern Logic

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From: thekingdomcome.com

Postmodernism in the theological sense is the idea that nothing is certain, that everything is an “experience” & a “journey” . Postmodernism advocates that if there is absolute truth, it is ultimately unknowable. It is called postmodernism indicating that it is after or beyond modern . Modernism & Postmodernism aren’t so much timeframes as much as they are frames of mind...or epistemological approaches. read more Read Full Story

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