post-modern
Ironic, self-referential style
Post-modern describes art, architecture, literature, or thought that reacts against modernism's rigid principles and faith in progress.
Where modernism sought universal truths and clean forms, post-modernism embraces irony, pastiche, and skepticism toward grand narratives.
In architecture, it might mix classical columns with neon; in literature, self-aware narration that acknowledges its own artifice: The novel's post-modern structure kept undermining its own plot.
Often hyphenated, though postmodern is increasingly standard.
Analysis exposing self-contradiction
- simulacraInsubstantial likenesses or copies
- hyperrealityRepresentations supplanting the genuine
- metanarrativeAll-encompassing explanatory framework
- intertextualityConnections between written works
bricolage · rhizome · deterritorialization · Derrida · Foucault · Baudrillard · discourse · genealogy
Mockery exposing vice
- parodySatirical imitation
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- subversionUndermining established authority
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
sarcasm · cynicism · absurdity · mockery · pastiche · contradiction · ambiguity · wit
Imitative artistic tribute
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
- eclecticismCombining from multiple sources
fragmentation · hybridity · sampling · remix · montage · bricolage · irony · self-referential
Freedom from personal bias
- essentialismDoctrine of fixed natures
- universalismDoctrine of total reconciliation
- binaryConsisting of two parts
- hierarchyRanked authority structure
canon · authority · metanarrative · foundationalism · teleology · progress · certainty · totality
Burial excavations in earth
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- ornamentationDecorative additions to something
- historicismEra determines truth claims
- playfulInclined toward fun
contextualism · colorful · whimsical · reference · symbolism · sculptural
deconstruction
Analysis exposing self-contradiction
- simulacraInsubstantial likenesses or copies
- hyperrealityRepresentations supplanting the genuine
- metanarrativeAll-encompassing explanatory framework
intertextuality · bricolage · rhizome · deterritorialization · Derrida · Foucault · Baudrillard · discourse · genealogy · hegemony
satire
Mockery exposing vice
- parodySatirical imitation
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- subversionUndermining established authority
deconstruction · sarcasm · cynicism · absurdity · mockery · pastiche · contradiction · ambiguity · wit · sardonic
pastiche
Imitative artistic tribute
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
eclecticism · fragmentation · hybridity · sampling · remix · montage · bricolage · irony · self-referential · meta
objectivity
Freedom from personal bias
- essentialismDoctrine of fixed natures
- universalismDoctrine of total reconciliation
- binaryConsisting of two parts
hierarchy · canon · authority · metanarrative · foundationalism · teleology · progress · certainty · totality · skepticism
Graves
Burial excavations in earth
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- ornamentationDecorative additions to something
- historicismEra determines truth claims
playful · contextualism · colorful · whimsical · reference · symbolism · sculptural
- architectural stylesArt Nouveau, Baroque, Bauhaus, brutalist, Byzantine
- Music ErasBaroque era, Baroque period, classical era, Renaissance music, early music
- tech erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, information age, digital age
post-modernmodernist
Advocate of experimental forms
pre-modern · premodern · modern · Enlightenment · classical
post-modernobjectivist
Rational egoism adherent
essentialist · positivist · rationalist · universalist · absolutist
postmodern, postmodernism, postmodernist, postmodernists, postmodernity