postmodernist
Rejects grand narratives
A postmodernist is someone who embraces or practices postmodernism—the late 20th-century movement questioning grand narratives, objective truth, and fixed meanings.
As an adjective, postmodernist describes work that plays with irony, fragmentation, and self-reference: a postmodernist novel, postmodernist architecture.
The term often carries skeptical undertones, implying pretension or obscurantism: That's postmodernist nonsense.
Grammatology's French author
- FoucaultProminent French family name
- BaudrillardPhilosopher of simulated reality
- JamesonIrish whiskey brand
- ButlerName from domestic service
Lacan · Eco · simulacra · death of the author · rhizome
Imitative artistic tribute
- bricolageConstruction from available materials
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
irony · parody · intertextuality · self-referential · remix · montage · mashup · appropriation
All-encompassing explanatory framework
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
- post-structuralismTheory rejecting stable meaning
- relativismContext-dependent truth doctrine
- simulacrumImitative stand-in for reality
hyperreality · epistemology · ontology · hermeneutics · phenomenology · constructivism · subjectivity · discourse
Disposition toward doubt
- relativismContext-dependent truth doctrine
- subversionUndermining established authority
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
incredulity · questioning · uncertainty · cynicism · critique · destabilizing · problematizing · interrogation
Pop art icon
- installationProcess of putting in
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
- multimediaCombined content formats
- performanceCarrying out a task
Duchamp · conceptual · neo-expressionism · readymade · found object
Burial excavations in earth
- ornamentationDecorative additions to something
- historicismEra determines truth claims
- complexityState of being complicated
- contradictionOpposing claims, incompatible together
duck · vernacular · contextualism · playfulness · façade
Derrida
Grammatology's French author
- FoucaultProminent French family name
- BaudrillardPhilosopher of simulated reality
- JamesonIrish whiskey brand
Butler · Lacan · Eco · simulacra · death of the author · rhizome
pastiche
Imitative artistic tribute
- bricolageConstruction from available materials
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
fragmentation · irony · parody · intertextuality · self-referential · remix · montage · mashup · appropriation · quotation
metanarrative
All-encompassing explanatory framework
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
- post-structuralismTheory rejecting stable meaning
- relativismContext-dependent truth doctrine
simulacrum · hyperreality · epistemology · ontology · hermeneutics · phenomenology · constructivism · subjectivity · discourse · nihilism
skepticism
Disposition toward doubt
- relativismContext-dependent truth doctrine
- subversionUndermining established authority
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
ambiguity · incredulity · questioning · uncertainty · cynicism · critique · destabilizing · problematizing · interrogation · suspicion
Warhol
Pop art icon
- installationProcess of putting in
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
- multimediaCombined content formats
Duchamp · performance · conceptual · neo-expressionism · readymade · found object
Graves
Burial excavations in earth
- ornamentationDecorative additions to something
- historicismEra determines truth claims
- complexityState of being complicated
contradiction · duck · vernacular · contextualism · playfulness · façade
- thinkersthinkers, thinker, philosophers, philosopher, Aristotle
- literary scholarsscholar, critic, literary critics, professor, philologists
- philosophersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Kant, Descartes
- writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, journalist
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Surrealism
- ideologiescapitalism, communism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism
postmodernistmodernist
Advocate of experimental forms
traditionalist · classicist · rationalist · essentialist · universalist
postmodernistobjectivist
Rational egoism adherent
absolutist · universalist · positivist · empiricist · rationalist
postmodernisttraditionalist
Adherent to established customs
conservative · classicist · purist · formalist · conventionalist