Six Facts On Postmodernism

Here and Everywhere -- 40 Years On!

1. There is no clean, objective distinction between the modern and the postmodern. (There is no chasm or a point of transition between the two periods);
2. Postmodernism involves "both/and" thinking;
3. Postmodernism is sucked into the orbit of commerce, mass culture, assembly-line mentality, kitsch art, mass media, advertising, fetishization of commodities, capitalism;
4. Postmodernist art is drained of meaning and emotional force by commercialisation;
5. Postmodernism is a social and economic event brought about mainly by the spread of mass industry;
6. Postmodernism is a cultural matter of changes in the arts.