Postmodernism

 Postmodernism

Postmodernism is the name of the cultural turn of the 1980's from structures to feelings, also called poststructuralism.

Postmodernism is critical and focuses on the particular, not on the general or universal such as tradition, authority, or rationality. A typical postmodern analysis or criticism focuses on power.

Postmodernism claims that science has been captured by the right which includes both the professional class and the corporations.  Science, and medicine, is considered to be socially situated.

Postmodernists detect increasing social instability and volatility, and a decline in predictability and regularity.

Postmodernism emphasizes the mind, fantasy, and the turning of fantasy back upon itself - fantasy versus fantasy - and this more fantasy.

Knowledge has no stable foundation, such as rationality, tradition or authority. Heidegger and Arendt emphasize that these  foundations have been forgotten, and lied away.

Knowledge must simply be useful but follows artistic and intellectual mutations as represented by Deluge's notion of the rhizome.

The observer and the observed are bound together by historical situatedness and moral commitments, not by notions of truth or value.  Values are properties of products in social relations.

Jameson describes postmodernism as deathlessness, spatial disorientation, a blurring of high future with popular culture, loss of historicity, and the rise of pastiche.