mordenisim v/s postmodernism

Postmodern/Postmodernity

-Suspicion and rejection of Master Narratives; local narratives, ironic deconstruction of master narratives: counter-myths of origin.

-Rejection of totalizing theories; pursuit of localizing and contingent theories.

-Social and cultural pluralism, disunity, unclear bases for social/national/ethnic unity.

-Skepticism of progress, anti-technology reactions, neo-Luddism; new age religions

-Sense of fragmentation and decentered self; 
multiple, conflicting identities

-Alternative family units, alternatives to middle-class marriage model, multiple identities for couplings and childraising.

-Subverted order, loss of centralized control, fragmentation.

-Trust and investment in micropolitics, identity politics, local politics, institutional power struggles.

-Rhizome/surface tropes. 
Attention to play of surfaces, images, signifiers without concern for "Depth"

-Hyper-reality, image saturation, simulacra seem more powerful than the "real"; images and texts with no prior "original". 
"As seen on TV" and "as seen on MTV" are more powerful than unmediated experience.

-Disruption of the dominance of high culture by popular culture; 
mixing of popular and high cultures, new valuation of pop culture, hybrid cultural forms cancel "high"/"low" categories

-Demassified culture; niche products and marketing, smaller group identities

-Art as process, performance, production, intertextuality. 
Art as recycling of culture authenticated by audience and validated in subcultures sharing identity with the artist.

-Navigation, information management, just-in-time knowledge. 
The Web

-Interactive, client-server, distributed, many- 
to-many media (the Net and Web)

-Dispersal, dissemination, 
networked, distributed knowledge

-Indeterminancy, contingency

-Play, irony, challenge to official seriousness, subversion of earnestness

-Hybridity, promiscuous genres, recombinant culture, intertextuality, pastiche

-Design and architecture of LA and Las Vegas

-cyborgian mixing of organic and inorganic, human and machine and electronic

-androgyny, queer sexual identities, polymorphous sexuality, mass marketing of pornography

-hypermedia as transcendence of physical limits of print media; 
the Web or Net as information system