Modern Postmodernism

Some commentators define Modernism as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology.

Post modernity as a phase of knowing and practice, abandons the assumptions, prejudices, and constraints of modernism to embrace the contradictions, irony, and profusion of pop and mass culture.

Reason and science provide accurate, objective, reliable foundation of “knowledge”

Reason and science are Ideologies in the Marxist sense; myths created by man.

Master narrative of progress through science and technology.

Scepticism of idea of progress, anti-technology reactions, neo-Luddism; new age religions.

Crisis in representation and status of the image after photography and mass media.

Culture adapting to simulation, visual media becoming undifferentiated equivalent forms, simulation and real-time media substituting for the real.

Seriousness of intention and purpose, middle-class earnestness.

Play, irony, challenge to official seriousness, subversion of earnestness.

Modern Vs Postmodernism

What is modernism?A philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.What is post-modernism?A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.