### art genre:

Postmodernism
* accepts that the self is fragmented and fluid.
* advertises itself as pluralistic, tolerant, and non-dogmatic.
* argues for academic freedom.
* begins with a loss of faith in the dreams of modernism.
* celebrates diversity, the multiplicity of perspectives.
* challenges the elevated status of scientists and scientific knowledge.
* confuses reason with belief.
* criticizes the traditional aspirations of reason.
* dead-end street because it evacuates all content of truth and moral objectivity.
* defines itself in contrast to modernism.
* denies the existence of an objective reality.
* describes a new approach to questions of truth.
* dismantles the humanism of modernity.
* embraces a pluralistic approach to gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity in art.
* generally rejects all forms of absolutism.
* has a broad consciousness of history and a short memory.
* includes the distrust of all universal discourses, including the Bible.
* is about an old world dying and a new world unable to be born
  - connecting, combining, erasing lines, taking down walls
  - an evolving creature which many people are trying to understand
* is characterized by an increasing plurality of beliefs
  - commodification and an emphasis on the present
  - nihilism and radical subjectivity
  - concerned with all surface, no substance
  - distrustful of all authority and dogmatism
  - essentially a rebellion against modernism
  - just a Western phenomenon within the overall context of modernity
  - made for contemporary times
  - often opposed to modernism
  - something new created in the present and something old borrowed from the past
  - surface over depth, simulation over the real, play over seriousness
  - suspicious of subject-centered reason or philosophies of consciousness
* is the intellectual's accommodation to the problem
  - popular development that followed modernity and moral relativism
  - post-marxist incarnation of the leftist emancipatory urge
  - rejection of the hegemony of even a fragment of epistemology
* means the end of materialism, of naturalism.
* metaphysics which denies the validity of metaphysics.
* movement that is evident in many forms of media
  - which encapsulates the arts, science, society, and culture
* multi-layered concept or worldview, acting against the modern worldview.
* often combines aspects of both popular and literary culture.
* philosophy that is used to look at the world in a new way.
* poses threats to people's thinking in a number of areas.
* postulates that reality is in the mind of the beholder.
* proclaims the truth that truth is an illusion.
* puts enchantment and mystery back into psychology.
* reaction against the rational system of Western modernity
  - to, or better, a rejection of the ideology of modernity
* rejects any religion that claims to be the only ultimate truth
  - modernism's autonomous individualism and all that follows from it
* rejects the idea of absolute truth and, along with that, objective ethical standards
  - objective truth and universal social progress
* represents an all-out assault on truth, knowledge and meaning.
* says it is arrogant to judge another religion as wrong or inferior.
* strives to deconstruct or unravel social, cultural, and human differences.
* suggests a radical change in culture.
* teaches one to fill in the silences.
* term aptly applied to the melange of musical styles in most major films.
* typically stands for irony, political awareness, or cynicism.
* universalizes cultures into insularity.
* way of thinking about culture and thought.
+ Post-postmodernism: Art movements
  * Post-Postmodernism' is a general term used to describe new developments emerging from Postmodernism. It is a positive idea that faith, sincerity and trust can be better for society Postmodern irony. Postmodernism is a way of thinking about culture and thought. It often challenges the certainty and authority of vital areas of our lives. However, as an almost sixty year-old term many do not think it is relevant to how we live our lives now and suggest a positive, earnest look at the world we live in. The Shadow of the Rainbow'.
  * Postmodernism rejects the idea of objective truth and universal social progress. Starting with the 18th century Enlightenment, and for more than a century, there was widespread belief that science, and knowledge, would improve the world. Social progress would be inevitable. Modernism in particular held these beliefs.