Whoever has emerged victorious participates to this day in the triumphal procession in which the present rulers step over those who are lying prostrate. According to traditional practice, the spoils are carried along in the procession. They owe their existence not only to the efforts of the great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. For every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably. No individualism or individual style, voice, expressive identity.
All signifiers circulate and recirculate prior and existing images and styles.
The features in the table below are only tendencies, not absolutes. In fact, the tendency to see things in seemingly obvious, binary, contrasting categories is usually associated with modernism. The tendency to dissolve binary categories and expose their arbitrary cultural co-dependency is associated with postmodernism. Master narrative of progress through science and technology. Alternative family units, alternatives to middle-class marriage model, multiple identities for couplings and childraising.