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Postmodernity - Philosophy and Critical Theory. Within philosophy and critical theory the use of the term "post-modernity" tends to cluster around two bodies of opinion. One argues that the modern project is completed, and that post-structuralism, specifically with anti-foundationalist ideas, must be incorporated into, or supplant, modern notions of criticism. For this group the work of Lyotard, Baudrillard, Foucault and Jameson represents a definitive reply to the modern project. In general the belief in this ra ...

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Criticisms of the post-modern condition can broadly be put into four categories: criticisms of post-modernity from the perspective of those who reject modernism and its offshoots, criticisms from supporters of modernism who believe that post-modernity lacks crucial characteristics of the modern project, critics from within post-modernity who seek reform or change based on their understanding of post-modernism, and those who believe that post-modernity is a passing, and not a growing, phase in social organization.See also:

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Postmodernity has been said to have gone through two relatively distinct phases: the first phase beginning in the 1950's and running through the end of the Cold War, where analog dissemination of information produced sharp limits on the width of channels, and encouraged a few authoritative media channels, and the second beginning with the explosion of cable television, internetworking and the end of the Cold War and the expansion of "new media" ba ...

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There are multiple positions on the differences between postmodernity and post-modernism. One position says that post-modernity is a condition or state of being, or is concerned with changes to institutions and conditions (Giddens 1990) - whereas postmodernism is an aesthetic, literary, political or social philosophy that consciously responds to post-modern conditions, or seeks to move beyond or critique modernity. ...

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The term postmodernity is used in a number of ways. Most generally, postmodernity is the state or condition of being postmodern (i.e., after or in reaction to what is modern), particularly in reference to postmodern art and postmodern architecture. In philosophy and critical theory, postmodernity more specifically refers to the state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. A related term is postmodernism, which refers to movements, philosoph ...

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Postmodernity, Postmodernity - Brief Introduction to the Uses of the Term, Postmodernity - Descriptions of postmodernity, Postmodernity - Philosophy and Critical Theory, Postmodernity - Traits of Postmodernity, Postmodernity - Social Sciences, Postmodernity - As a stylistic approach, Postmodernity - General usage, Postmodernity - Postmodernity versus post-modernism, Postmodernity - Brief history of postmodernity, Postmodernity - Criticisms of Post-Modernity, Postmodernity - Anti-Modernity Critiques, Postmodernity - Modernist Critiques of Post-Modernity, Postmodernity - Critiques within Post-Modernity, Postmodernity - Studies in postmodernity, Postmodernity - Bibliography

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