There seems to be no one, exact definition for Post-modernism, only that it is a departure, or perhaps a progression, from modernism. Ultimately, postmodernist views involves the analysis of difference, which the fundamental of cultural theory is also based upon. Paul Kugler's essay perhaps best provides a sense of these two terms. Kugler argues that language, just as imagos, preserves this liminality. Thus, the subject is divided, and ultimately incapable of being identified.
Postmodern theory is often times criticized for being ethnocentric, and rightly so.
Published and discoursed theory often stems from the perspective of a white male. The harder the times, the harder this is to contemplate, much less undertake, much less change. How we view the world is ultimately how we image the objects outside of us. From body-building to culinary choices, the other is that image against which we define the self. Here are several everyday examples of how the other factors into everyday life.