1. POST MODERNISM
“The Noise of Battle”

2. no intrinscic essence to a text, only contrast-need for deconstruction
MODERNISM
POST
no intrinscic essence to a text, only contrast-need for deconstruction
we cannot ground our words in a real world
Derrida
Jacques
1967
"Each society has its regime of truth, its general politics of truth, that is the type of discourse which it accepts and makes function
Foucault
Michael
1975
knowledge no longer the search for absolutes and meta narratives
new technologies= production of information
The Post Modernist Condition- a cultural age
Jean Francois Lyotard
1979
The idea that truth and the world are actually out there is myth
Richard Rorty
historians use narrative and poetic constructions which reflect more about the historian
Historical text as a literary Artefact
Hayden White
1978

3. Modernism vs Postmodernism
Master Narratives and Metanarratives of history, culture and national identity; myths of cultural and ethnic origin
Faith in "Grand Theory" (totalizing explanations in history, science and culture) to represent all knowledge and explain everything.
Faith in, and myths of, social and cultural unity, hierarchies of social-class and ethnic/national values, seemingly clear bases for unity.
Suspicion and rejection of Master Narratives; local narratives, ironic deconstruction of master narratives: counter-myths of origin
Rejection of totalizing theories; pursuit of localizing and contingent theories
Social and cultural pluralism, disunity, unclear bases for social/national/ethnic unity.

5. Modernism vs Postmodernism
Master narrative of progress through science and technology.
Sense of unified, centered self; "individualism," unified identity.
Idea of "the family" as central unit of social order: model of the middle-class, nuclear family.
Skepticism of progress, anti-technology reactions, neo-Luddism; new age religions
Sense of fragmentation and decentered self; multiple, conflicting identities.
Alternative family units, alternatives to middle-class marriage model, multiple identities for couplings and childraising.

7. Modernism vs Postmodernism
Hierarchy, order, centralized control.
Faith and personal investment in big politics (Nation-State, party).
Faith in the "real" beyond media and representations; authenticity of "originals"
Subverted order, loss of centralized control, fragmentation.
Trust and investment in micro- politics, identity politics, local politics, institutional power struggles.
Hyper-reality, image saturation, simulacra seem more powerful than the "real"; images and texts with no prior "original". "As seen on TV" and "as seen on MTV" are more powerful than unmediated experience.