That Planet Earth Turns Slowly… But I Don’t
Meme to meet you,
In this week’s blog, I’d like to address to a difficult topic
(for me) which is Post Modernism. What is that? Well, according to verifiable
resources, Post- Modernism is a huge movement that developed in the mid- to
late 20th century on philosophy, arts, architecture and criticism which
evolved from modernism.
It is categorized by wide skeptism, subjectivism, or
relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity
to the role of ideology in declaring and maintaining political and
economic power.
In short, it is the era after Modernism, a huge movement in
Western arts and literature that started from around 19th and early 20th centuries,
and is characterised by intentional rejection of the styles of the past;
emphasising on innovation and experimentation in order to create artworks that
reflects modern society.
Okay… this topic really fries my tiny brain. Anyways, there
are a few people who made their opinions or ideas (philosophies really), known
about Post-Modernism that it became influential and famous during that era.
One of them was Martin Heidegger, a German philosopher who
objects the philosophical basis of the concepts of "subjectivity" and
"objectivity" (whatever that means) and said that similar grounding
oppositions in logic ultimately refer to one another.
Jacques Derrida, a French philosopher and the father of deconstruction,
and practiced philosophy as a form of textual criticism. He criticized Western
philosophy as privileging the concept of presence and logos, as opposed to
absence and markings or writings.
Philosophies on Post-Modernism made a huge impact on arts, architecture,
literature and music, among other things.
In architecture, it was a movement or style that pop up during
the 60s, as a reaction against the lack of variety of modern architecture and
design. The style thrives through the 80s and 90s, probably because during that
timeline there were a lot of movies, dramas and theories involved in sci-fi and
the future.
Post- Modernism in music is simply music developed in the era.
Music that follows the trend of philosophical or appreciation of post
modernism. (I’m just repeating what I said lol) It became the trend in the 60s,
where psychedelic rock started to grow. Another example would be the rock band,
The Beatles.
In every era, there will always be someone who would criticise
a new invention or idea. The same could be said with post modernism. Criticism
on post modernism was varied and different, Noam Chomsky, an American
philosopher said post modernism is meaningless because it adds nothing to
analytical or demonstrable knowledge.
"The idea that we live in a postmodern culture is a myth.
In fact, a postmodern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly
unliveable. People are not relativistic when it comes to matters of
science, engineering, and technology; rather, they are relativistic and
pluralistic in matters of religion and ethics. But, of course, that's not
postmodernism; that's modernism!"
-A
quote from Christian apologist and philosopher William Lane Craig
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