Postmodernism Definitions

Some examples of how to define postmodernism are:

1) An assertion that knowledge and truth is contextual and constructed

2) A rejection of the sovereign autonomous individual with an emphasis upon anarchic collective ( a doctrine advocating the abolition of both the state and private ownership of the means of production), anonymous experience. Collage, diversity, the mystically unrepresentable, Dionysian passion are the foci of attention. Most importantly we see the dissolution of distinctions, the merging of subject and object, self and other. This is a sarcastic playful parody of western modernity and the "John Wayne" individual and a radical, anarchist rejection of all attempts to define, reify or re-present the human subject

3) Anti-authoritarian by nature, it refuses to recognise the authority of any single style or definition of what art or film etc. should be. It collapses the distinction between high culture and mass or popular culture. Resultantly, postmodernism can be characterised by its self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, and an eclectic mixing of different artistic and popular styles and media