What is Postmodernism

Definition of Postmodernism:

Modernism is the name given to the movement which dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century. 

Postmodernism includes the idea of the emergence of a society in which the mass media and popular culture are the most important and powerful institutions that control and shape all other types of social relationships; the idea that surfaces and style become ever more important, producing and feeding off what is called a designer ideology: that anything can be turned into a joke, reference or quotation in its eclectic plays of styles, simulations and surfaces; confusions over time and space; and the loss of a sense of history as a continuous, linear  narrative, a clear sequence of events. 

• Postmodernism is a set of theories and ways of seeing.
• Which is about contemporary moment. (now) 
• It is shown through technologization, media and globalization. 
• E.g. which is the best brand of products to chose from. 
• 'we live in a world of seemingly limitless choice;one chooses not necessarily what is true,but what one chooses. 
• 'modernists wanted to break with the past to create something new, more truthful more enlightened we can begin anew (Lyotard I43) 
• For postmodernists,'the notion that arts should reflect some stable reality or express a set of stable values (beauty, harmony) or strive for a radically different mode of reading,seeing or being is considered, if not impossible, at least utopian.' ( During 67)
• 'The idea of the postmodern is put forward not just as another marketed image of society but as an objective description of what society really and truly is. Yet...there is supposed to be no space for truth and reality in postmodernity.' (During 68)