Postmodernity

What is Postmodernism? According to Merriam Webster dictionary ,Post-Modernism is “of relating to or being any various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms by ironic self reference and absurdity “ (Webster, Merriam). The very term "postmodern" was, in fact, coined in the forties by the historian, Arnold Toynbee (Felluga).Postmodernism cannot be historically a specific year, and however, its ideas are around the…

The main three grand philosophies that are associated with the theories of Social Work are; structuralism, modernism and post-conventionalism. These grand theories are not just used for Social Work, many other professions practice them too. These philosophies are used all around us in today’s day and age, people can see a product of this from a photo, song, website, building, or from pieces of art. The theory of Post-Conventionalism is all about knowing that there are many answers to a certain…

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, established in 1603 with Galileo as chair, is relocated to the City of London to provide a new education system to tackle the Square Mile’s lack of moral purpose. The Academy is a monochrome mass of libraries and ritualistic lecture spaces set in a landscape to induce physical and metaphysical wandering, meeting and reflection. Three environments are provided, inspired by the core natural elements of mountain for isolation and reflection, river for wandering…

The most popular writer with regards in postmodernity, is Jean-Francois Lyotard, he primarily define the term postmodernity as a contemporary condition that we live and champions the forms of resistance and critics. Lyotard believed that, in a postmodernity period, there is a question regarding the sense of the ownership. Who controls the flow of an idea from one person to another and who has access to their ideas. With that, the person became a consumer of knowledge that can transform into a…

Ancient to the Postmodernity period is quite fascinating but what about the future? Is it the return of industrial age but with lots of dreary pollution like Blade Runner, is it the world filled with utopian like city, or a menacing war zone. The future seems to be unpredictable but it is predictable. This is because it depends on what we will do in the future and how we reach our dismal or scintillating goal. There is many exemplars which illustrates how the future will be like from the…

“You mustn’t look ... for the old stable ego of character. There is another ego, according to whose action the individual is unrecognizable.” (D. H. Lawrence) How did modernism re‐conceive character? With the rise of modernism there came a huge change in the way characters were presented in works of literature. Up to this point the realist writers painted their characters in broad strokes, often using clichés and making people act in a different way to how a real person would behave…

In “The Ritual Process,” Victor Turner employs the term “liminoid” to define modern rites that transport individuals out of the ordinary realm and into a realm of “anti-structure” where they are “betwixt and between” societal statuses. (94) New Age practices are liminoid in the sense that they are thought of as doorways to sacred transitioning, during which energy is ordered and self-actualization takes place. In the realm of the liminoid, the self is liberated, “de-identification is…

Postmodernism In The World Of Bob’s Burgers Fox’s critically acclaimed animated sitcom series, Bob’s Burgers, focuses on the life of a family who runs a hamburger restaurant. The Belcher family—which include parents Bob and Linda Belcher, alongside their children Tina, Gene and Louise—are the center of the show. The restaurant, conveniently named ‘Bob’s Burgers,’ is the center of where the majority of the episode plot occurs. Bob, who is the owner and chef of Bob’s Burgers, just wants to run…

Mulholland Drive is a prime example of postmodernism. It has many postmodern elements like pastiche and simulacrum for example. The film also takes the readymade style of the Hollywood film and adds a postmodern twist to it by making the movie only an illusion of Diane’s imagination. There is also the idea of invasion present in the film. This is seen by the fact that with Hollywood controlling our lives and shaping our dreams and the outside world invades our world so much that we just want…

define society based on the modernity and postmodernity movements. The definition of the modernity movement lies in the characteristics of modern societies that have capitalistic economies and democratic political structures that are highly industrialized. Postmodernity is almost the same as modernity, but the communication of technology and process of information included in the postmodernity movement differentiates it from modernity. Loosely stated, postmodernity is the state or condition of…