0 a style of art, writing, music, theatre, and especially architecture popular in the West in the 1980s and 90s, that includes features from several different periods in the past or from the present and past --
Many linguists would have trouble distinguishing romanticism from realism, and modernism from postmodernism.
And yet the words "uniform" and "style" represent the very opposite of postmodernism.
These would be versions of weak relativism (which have been associated here with certain brands of liberalism and postmodernism).
The treatment of disability movements in the first edition has been dropped; postmodernism is new.
Again, the author's criticism of postmodernism lies in the identification - by the latter - of the work of art with its 'meaning'.
The impact of postmodernism on archaeology is of particular relevance here.
Postmodernism is not necessarily a 'critical' perspective, but the chapter gives a sensible appraisal of the ambiguity in the topic.
Above all, though, these writers are united in a disdain for metropolitan postmodernism, suburban minimalism, campus selfreflexivity.
