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	Postmodernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Postmodernism is any of a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding modernism.
		In sociology, postmodernism is described as being the result of economic, cultural and demographic changes (related terms in this context include post-industrial society and late capitalism) and it is attributed to factors such as the rise of the service economy, the importance of the mass media and the rise of an increasingly interdependent world economy.
		Postmodernism has manifestations in many modern academic and non-academic disciplines: philosophy, theology, art, architecture, film, television, music, theatre, sociology, fashion, technology, literature, and communications are all heavily influenced by postmodern trends and ideas, and are thoroughly scrutinised from postmodern perspectives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postmodernism (6215 words)

	Map of the Postmodern Mindset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Postmoderns wonder what different realities offer to the larger questions of the mysteries of this life, the spirit that many of them recognize, and what might be out there beyond us.
		Postmoderns become hybrids as they explore various cultural and religious traditions and adopt the elements that are relevant to their lives.
		The postmodern perspective is more accurately described as "perspectivist" rather than "relativist." Postmoderns are aware of their varying viewpoints on reality and are suspicious of anyone who asserts that their viewpoint is the perfect take on reality.
	www.newwway.org /map_of_the_postmodern_mindset.htm (4026 words)

	Alt.Postmodern FAQ
		Baudrillard talks of the `triumph of signifying culture.' Capturing the new orientation characteristic of postmodernism, compared with portrayals of modernity as an era or a definite period, the advent of postmodernity is often presented as a `mood' or `state of mind' (see Featherstone, 1988).
		Postmodernism, on the contrary, is committed to modes of thinking and representation which emphasize fragmentations, discontinuities and incommensurable aspects of a given object, from intellectual systems to architecture.
		A postmodern artist or writer is in the position of a philosopher: the text he writes, the work he produces are not in principle governed by preestablished rules, and they cannot be judged according to a determining judgment, by applying familiar categories to the text or to the work.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/postmodern-faq (7246 words)

	Jenks: The Problematics of Postmodern Culture... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Within the context of a postindustrial, "flexible" political economy and emergent postmodern cultural trends, the possibility of durable democratic political action is constrained not only by a decentering of the subject but a decentering of the corporeal basis for subjectivities.
		While postmodern developments in recent years have opened up a myriad of viable problems with the more traditional pluralist and marxist modes of inquiry into power, many of these developments have often stopped short of theorizing their own contributions to democratic political action.
		While one may posit that the tendencies of postmodern culture towards fragmentation and the dissolution of the "metanarrative" are in themselves points of resistance to this process, the contours of postmodern culture are sharply delineated by consumer capitalism.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /CSS97/papers/jenkspap.html (5430 words)

	"Costly Compensations: Postmodern Fashion, Politics, Identity"
		To the degree that the subversive political force of postmodern pastiche eschews challenging the broader political economy of late capitalism, however, it exhibits a telling tendency of postmodern new social movements, namely the reduction of universalistic utopianism to micropolitics.
		A key innovation of the carnivalesque, heteroglot, disaggregated culture of postmodernity is the notion of multiple subject positions, in which subjectivity emerges as a sociohistorical construct cobbled together from the many roles and situations occupied, willingly or not, by "persons" whose agency and values, fantasies and desires, cohere in contradiction.
		In Kellner's view, the cultural idea, the cult, of self-fashioning a "new you" is for many people a lie, an ideology: people everywhere cannot simply alter their bodies, ages, psychological and economic conditions, images.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /L/Vincent.B.Leitch-1/article3.html (4410 words)

	Post PostModern Culture
		as a harbinger, as a symptom of a cultural rupture.
		This culture can be viewed as alive it has a dynamic life and an unconscious, it is informing the foundations, the palace and all the people in it.
		Also consider m as committed to culture, nation, war, central, global, man and centre versus pm's multi-cultural, multi-national, conflict resolution, regional, local, humanity, and a deep realization of the value of margins.
	www.xtrapolate.com /xtrablog (782 words)

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		Postmodern Culture is a peer-reviewed electronic journal which provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for discussions of contemporary literature, theory, and culture.
		Postmodern Culture is open to public subscription, and its archived files are available for retrieval.
		For example, we publish works-in-progress, such as Bell Hooks's investigation of the interrelations and contradictions of African American culture and postmodern theory, which invite discussion and allow scholars to open their work to criticism as they write, so that texts may in fact evolve as collaborative ventures between readers and writers.
	info.lib.uh.edu /pr/v2/n1/amiran.2n1 (2594 words)

	Illuminations: Best and Kellner
		Key postmodern theorists argue that contemporary societies with their new technologies, novel forms of culture and experience, and striking economic, social, and political transformations constitute a decisive rupture with previous forms of life, bringing to an end the modern era.
		The term "postmodern" is thus increasingly taken as a synonym for the contemporary social moment and as a marker to describe its novelties and breaks from modern culture and society.
		Our analyses suggest that in a postmodern society of the image and spectacle, culture is playing an increasingly important role and thus it is imperative to develop critical theories of culture and a cultural studies that will interrogate the meanings, effects, and consequences of this shift in culture and technology.
	www.uta.edu /huma/illuminations/best8.htm (2396 words)

	Postmodernism - Deconstruction -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		Celebrations of Postmodernity, the insistence of a continuation of modernity, interpretations of globally-emerging postmodern spaces, even the call for an analysis of hypermodernity thus coexist in the collection at hand.
		Postmodern Culture is an electronic journal of interdisciplinary studies.
		Postmodern Culture can accommodate, and will include, different kinds of writing, from traditional analytical essays and reviews to video scripts and other new literary forms.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/postmodernism.htm (1211 words)

	Postmodern Virtualities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Postmodern culture is often presented as an alternative to existing society which is pictured as structurally limited or funda mentally flawed.
		The discussion of postmodern culture focuses to a great extent on an emerging new individual identity or subject position, one that abandons what may in retrospect be the narrow scope of the modern individual with its claims to rationality and autonomy.
		But it permits the recognition of an emergent postmodernity an d a tentative approach to a political analysis of that cultural system; it permits the beginning of a line of thought that confronts the possibility of a new age, avoiding the continued, limiting, exclusive repetition of the logics of modernity.
	www.hnet.uci.edu /mposter/writings/internet.html (7849 words)

	Postmodern Blackness [Bell Hooks]
		Radical postmodernism calls attention to those sensibilities which are shared across the boundaries of class, gender, and race, and which could be fertile ground for the construction of empathy--ties that would promote recognition of common commitments and serve as a base for solidarity and coalition.
		Postmodern critiques of essentialism which challenge notions of universality and static over-determined identity within mass culture and mass consciousness can open up new possibilities for the construction of the self and the assertion of agency.
		Much postmodern engagement with culture emerges from the yearning to do intellectual work that connects with habits of being, forms of artistic expression and aesthetics, that inform the daily life of a mass population as well as writers and scholars.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Articles_Gen/Postmodern_Blackness_18270.html (2669 words)

	The Riddle of Our Postmodern Culture - Leadership journal - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		Modernism, which began roughly in the 1700s and allegedly ended in the 1950s, is the cultural outlook that put its faith in optimism, progress, the pursuit of objective knowledge, and science.
		One expression of postmodern culture is the way in which most Americans equivocate on the issue of truth.
		Much of postmodernism and the culture it is creating should be mocked for the silliness it represents.
	www.ctlibrary.com /le/1997/winter/7l1052.html (1518 words)

	Unsworth: Postmodern Culture
		As the first peer-reviewed electronic journal, Postmodern Culture was a ground-breaking experiment in scholarly publishing.
		It was not just the first publication of its kind: it is also the longest-surviving electronic journal, the first electronic journal to be published by a university press, the first peer-reviewed journal to appear on the World-Wide Web, the first academic journal to publish networked multimedia, and the first scholarly journal distributed free of charge.
		Still, Postmodern Culture is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, and its editorial process is probably not unlike that of other peer-reviewed journals.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /~jmu2m/pmc.html (1088 words)

	Amazon.com: Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times: Books: Marvin Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And he offers a cultural materialist perspective on diverse contemporary issues such as the IQ question and the fall of communism.
		Harris's cultural materialist critiques of other anthropological research strategies have stood the test of time and only need to be updated to include some of the newer trends that arose in the intervening thirty years.
		In a chapter inappropriately titled Origins of Capitalism Harris explores an excellent cultural materialist explaination of the rise of feudalism in Europe and Japan which was, as he says, the basis for the rise of capitalism.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0761990216?v=glance (1297 words)

	Every Thought Captive: Postmodern Culture and the Church Experience
		A large part of Rosen’s thesis is that we have become far to comfortable with shaping our experiences to ourselves rather than experiencing the world as it really is. Deleterious consequences follow for those who are more connected to their technologies than the outside world.
		Reaching out to culture is not just building bridges people can use to cross over into the Church, but building the right kinds of bridges in the right places and the right kinds of walls in the right places.
		I think you've got that backwards; traditional & modern views would have it that culture, tools, etc., are wielded by the individual, whereas a pomo perspective is that the individual is wielded by the tool (or they wield one another in a reciprocal relationship).
	steigerblog.blogspot.com /2005/03/postmodern-culture-and-church.html (798 words)

	Ctheory Books - The Postmodern Scene : Arthur Kroker and David Cook
		Baudrillard's vision of excremental culture par excellence or a final coming home to a mediascape which even as a "body without organs" (Deleuze and Guattari), a "negative space" (Krauss), a "pure implosion" (Lyotard) or "a symbolic experience" (Kristeva) is now first nature and thus the terrain of a new political refusal?
		The Postmodern Scene is a series of major theorizations about key artistic and intellectual tendencies in the postmodern condition.
		Here' a theoretical reflection is viewed as a privileged artistic act: simultaneously a critical encounter with the "shock of the real" and a meditation in the form of a lament over the "intimations of deprival" which speak to us now of postmodern culture, art, and philosophy in ruins.
	www.ctheory.net /book2.asp?bookid=13 (228 words)

	Post-modernism - how to communicate the Christian Gospel in a postmodern culture
		Postmodernism therefore encourages such choose-it-yourself faiths as the New Age Movement.
		Understanding the postmodern worldview is not a luxury for a sociologists.
		Postmodernism: The Spirit of the Age from Xenos Christian Fellowship
	guide.gospelcom.net /resources/modern.php (860 words)

	Books about Christian mission and post-modernity, and postmodern culture
		If you've read a good book related to mission and/or postmodernity, and would be willing to write a brief summary or a review to include in Postmission.com, please get in touch, click here.
		The premise of this book is that Generation X and subsequent generations will express their faith and their understanding of mission in a very different way to previous generations moulded by the culture of modernity.
		More Ready Than You Realize is about the "dance of evangelism." It outlines a two year history of spiritual friendship between the author and a postmodern seeker using her emails to explain the shifts that need to occur in Christian thinking if evangelism is to be effective in the emerging cultural context.
	www.postmission.com /books.html (1566 words)

	SUNY Press :: Postmodern Journeys
		Part memoir, part cultural criticism, this fast-paced ride through the postmodern landscape of American popular culture explores how our responses to headline events and popular films help script the ways in which we imagine ourselves and the world around us.
		Somewhere in the intersection of what the record shows and how popular film and culture put us into play with that record lies the postmodern American landscape we are imagining and creating.
		Joseph Natoli teaches postmodernism and cultural studies at the Center for Integrative Studies/Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University.
	www.sunypress.edu /details.asp?id=60242 (390 words)

	emergingchurch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		the emergence of the postmodern era (1960 onward) is only now beginning to impact the world and the church in a profound way.
		really trust the power of the gospel and learn to communicate it with authenticity, because for postmodern people, authenticity is primary.
		the church should not fear postmodernity, as it provides us with a new context, and thus a fresh opportunity to get real, to drink deep from our own wells, and go back to our own future...
	www.emergingchurch.org (530 words)

	Postmodern Culture
		POSTMODERN CULTURE is published by Oxford University Press three times a year (September, January, and May).
		Postmodern Culture is a member of the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) and of the Association of Electronic Scholarly Journals (AESJ).
		Once you've connected, choose "Publications of the Institute" and then choose "Postmodern Culture": you will find a menu listing all published issues of the journal, and within each issue, full text of all the issue's contents.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/88/pmc.html (599 words)

	Amazon.com: The Wake of Imagination: Toward a Postmodern Culture: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Postmodern Narratives, The Parodic Imagination, The Hellenic Imagination, Old Testament, Critique of Pure Reason, Middle Ages, Palace of Living Arts, Richard of St Victor, Critique of Judgement, Holy Spirit, Rabbi Hayyim, Divided Line, Don Juan, Church Fathers, Ben Vautier, Book of Creation, Frederic Jameson, Los Angeles, Van Gogh, Venus de Milo
		This historical inquiry gives a context to his insightful articulation of the postmodern time and the concept of a creative imagination as a passing illusion of the western humanist, consumer, capitalist culture.
		This book is a vital, intellegent analysis and guide for creativity, art, and imagination in our present postmodern culture.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415119502?v=glance (911 words)

	Shared Mission of Theology and Science in Postmodern Culture
		The Implication of the Puritan Theology for Theologizing in Postmodernity
		We are now entering a postmodern period, when assumptions we have inherited from the Enlightenment are being deconstructed.
		In the 28th chapter, the glowing description of the marvels of human technology is followed by the hunting question: “But where shall wisdom be found?” This same question haunts us today.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/christian_gospel_culture/72069 (591 words)

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