postmodernism<\/a>\u00a0postmodernism is as contested as the field it seeks to define. The Merriam-Webster dictionary has it as \u201cmeaning either \u201cof, relating to, or being an era after a modern one\u201d or \u201cof, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature)\u201d, or finally \u201cof, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language\u201d.<\/p>\nWe can go back as far as the Enlightenment for the sources of postmodernism though it has been identified as a movement in design and architecture beginning in the 1920\u2019s. Postmodernism is useful to critical theory because it offers a way to examine the arts, society and information and entertainment media if all their forms.<\/p>\n
In a mediated world that offers an ideological buffet (or the more cynical may call it a fast-moving assembly line) of images and meanings that seek to direct us \u2013 or not \u2013 what we\u00a0may end up with is banality (something is objectified and commercialized among myriad other products that we probably don\u2019t need in the first place) or propaganda (somebody wants to direct our thoughts and actions).<\/p>\n
Unless\u2026<\/p>\n
We keep asking questions.<\/p>\n
This article may not be the be all and end all of postmodern discourse, and I imagine some may think this example is an over simplification. It is a starting place, a way to visualize an elusive and debatable process.<\/p>\n
I contend that we do not only live in a postmodern era but simultaneously in shifting ideological systems that morph through technological mediation. How these ideologies interact and challenge religion and religious faith can lead to interesting encounters, flat out confrontations, or that in-between place: the energizing and peaceful market place of ideas and dialogue about things that matter.<\/p>\n
The author offers a starting point to consider how to find meaning and live mindfully in a random world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An article in todays New York Times Magazine by Rob Walker \u201d\u00a0Consumed \u2013 Remixed Messages\u00a0\u201d is, to me, a perfect example of\u00a0how the\u00a0process of postmodernization functions. My take on this article is to ask: \u201cWhy do we moderns seem so random and un-tethered\u00a0at times?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Because we don\u2019t know, remember, or think to ask: where did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54],"tags":[446,516,1234,1235,1236,1238,1239,1256,1307],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerntary","category-philosophy","tag-consumers-remixed-messages","tag-defining-postmodernism","tag-postmoderism-and-art","tag-postmoderism-and-consumerism","tag-postmodernism","tag-postmodernism-and-pop-culture","tag-postmodernism-and-religion","tag-process-of-postmodernism","tag-rob-walker"],"yoast_head":"\n
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