Okay well we've been talking about postmodernism this whole semester so you'd think finally defining it would be easy. But, if anything I think Postmodernism for Beginners should have taught us how difficult a concept it is to grasp. After all, the entire book is 300 pages of questions just about trying to understand postmodernism. Of course, I can't put just that for my blog so I’ll try my best to summarize it in a long rant of random thoughts.
I think the central concept of postmodernism, if anything is about how society really has no central point. In our lifetime, we have seen huge leaps in technology that now make information from all over the globe available within seconds. Through all this information, we have been introduced to ideas and cultures very different from our own. We have been forced to admit that while our way may be right to us it is not the only way, and nor can we prove anyone’s belief is wrong. Maybe the moon is just a big celestial rock or maybe a Native American god vomited it. We have learned to accept all ways and open our minds to every culture and idea not just focus on one central truth. I believe this is the key concept in Postmodernism.
Im really not sure what else to say. To me that is pretty much what postmodernism is all about, abandoning the central ideas of the past and opening are minds o accept other influeneces from around the world. We no longer had a central them to our life but many small metanarratives. That is postmodernism is a nutshell
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Hey Chelsea,
ReplyDeleteWell, I like your perspective of postmodernism. Obviously, it is really complex and difficult to analyze, but you did a good job executing your input. The way you mention how we have to take everything in consideration and there really is no exact or precise meaning of one thing, rather multiple or even none, is pretty solid. I agree with this statement as we observe things the way we want to see it when reality it could be different, or the same. It just depends on the situation. We have to look at things from an outside perspective, is basically what I'm trying to say.
Postemodernism for Beginners did include a lot of questions and different topics, so it was hard to analyze a section because they were pretty relevant to what we're learning in class, but I think you chose a good topic and stuck to it. Good job!
Chee Chee! Yes I believe your blog is indeed Postmodernism in a nutshell. I also agree with everything you said so I do not know what else to say for comments. Oh right! I think you could of related that to some of the books that we read. I think that would of made it easier to write about. I think that the summary of Postmodernism is much easier to understand than the actual explanation that some people have come up with to try to explain Postmodernism. I hope that makes sense because that was my attempt at wording it the best I could. I think it is much easier to grasp it as a general concept rather than analyzing each part of it because it just makes it more complex, and those questions that you were referring to in the first paragraph proves that. I definitely agreed with you about abandoning a central idea as well, in short, I think that is the simple answer to the question.
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ReplyDeletegood points (especially the part about somebody vomitting up the moon...hahaha) Anyways, I agree that postmodernism is extremely confusing! The whole book seems counterproductive because it seems as thought as soon as the book answers a question, several more are created. I guess the only way to answer questions fully is by asking more questions...Postmodernism is sort of something that none of us are very experienced with but at least we can read inforation and make some sort of sense out of it. All people are different and that is why we all have so mant different ideas and beliefs.