Why exactly do people here think post-modernism is a historical phase, a time period which has a beginning...

Why exactly do people here think post-modernism is a historical phase, a time period which has a beginning, the so called the END of modernism, and has an end prepared for itself?

post-modernism is a movement INSIDE modernism, which throws itself in front of the modernist thought, which in turn chases it, to get rid of it. it's a faster futuristic thiking that critiques modernity from its very own projected future. like numerous revolts happening inside a vast empire: dissimulated, FROM the modernity, and thoroughly its own. it didn't end the modernity, it will end with modernity

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The terminolology suffers for clarity. It's Macadamia speak. If you want it to change, the idea must be accessible to the masses.

the way it is articulated in the OP isn't simple enough?

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Your expression is fine. Maybe no change is needed. But if change is desired. . . .
Do classics end at 1900, 1945, or 1965?
The answer probably is, whenever the store claims it does.
So post-modern as a term seems to be endless, maybe that's intentional.

Postmodernism won't survive this century. It is, like you said, just an extension of modernism, and its critiques and subversions of traditional modes of thought and inquiry are old news in the modern technological society. What's going to become ever more important in the coming years isn't man's existential struggle with himself and a meaningless world, but the fact that mankind and society is going to be utterly transformed and/or destroyed by the technology it has created to replace and surpass human work and endeavour. All these postmodern writers and theorists will look as uninformed and nitpicky as those pre-enlightenment doctors arguing over the finer points of "humours" and the role of bad smells in causing disease

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>It is, like you said, just an extension of modernism
that's not what user said desu

Post-Modernism will no doubt evolve, perhaps to a more extreme criticism of the way we live. The way it looks now, we may end up in a sort of absurdist state. It depends.

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equally suspicious to call it old news, isn't the technological society still modern and creating its own paradoxes/non-continuum spots? what is called man's existential struggle is where modern thought can't follow itself fluently any more.

you write as if you believe that the technology will produce a real "post-modernity" which surpasses all post-modern resurgence, a hope for the end of all meaninglessness BY the very thing that created it.
and still putting post-modernism OUTSIDE of modernism.

No, not a "post-modernity" just a moving past the stasis that postmodernism as we know it entails. I can see art having a much more central role in shaping humanity's sense if purpose in the coming years, since so many other aspects of what humans currently do will be automated. The whole naval-gazing and the constant, pointless questions posed by postmodern thought will never be solved, but it can be moved past to make way for art that once again does something, that steps out and takes the world for granted in order to actually create. When the idea that each individual subjective experience is somehow valid as art is finally dismissed then maybe something like a true movement for literature can grow.

Is this an original opinion or where did you get it from?

Either way the postmodernism is the product of factors latent in modernism, does it matter it’s ‘inside’ or ‘outside’?

because they are dimwitted 18 year olds who have organized some of the connecting boxes in their head to the world wonkily

Why do you think that WWII and subsequent revolutions in information distribution aren't sufficient justification for (postmodern) theory distinguishing a new historical phase?

don't talk shit. all you theorycucks are so starved for good writing that you lose all critical consciousness the moment you encounter a half decent example of prosody. there's fucking nothing here. meaningless. thanks

because there are still texas ranchers and farmers living as they did 100 years ago. Yeah maybe they have cell phones, is that enough to say 'their life is now post modern' and that means something?

Does 'post modern' mean and almost only mean 'increased freedom'?