Moderns vs Postmodernism

1. Modern Vs Postmodernism
What is modernism?
A philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching
transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is post-modernism?
A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from
modernism and is characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic
styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.
Modern Postmodernism
Some commentators define Modernism as a socially
progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of
human beings to create, improve and reshape their
environment with the aid of practical experimentation,
scientific knowledge, or technology.
Post modernity as a phase of knowing and practice,
abandons the assumptions, prejudices, and constraints of
modernism to embrace the contradictions, irony, and
profusion of pop and mass culture.
Reason and science provide accurate, objective, reliable
foundation of “knowledge”
Reason and science are Ideologies in the Marxist sense;
myths created by man.
Master narrative of progress through science and
technology.
Scepticism of idea of progress, anti-technology reactions,
neo-Luddism; new age religions.
Crisis in representation and status of the image after
photography and mass media.
Culture adapting to simulation, visual media becoming
undifferentiated equivalent forms, simulation and real-time
media substituting for the real.
Seriousness of intention and purpose, middle-class
earnestness.
Play, irony, challenge to official seriousness, subversion of
earnestness.