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postmodernism |
(n): genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
(n): a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
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While postmodernism does indeed employ a lot of obscure and "meaningless" rhetorics, the ideology itself is simply a reaction to the 20th century modernism. Let's not make it a new boogeyman.
My favourite phrase to describe this — or rather a common view of it — is a passing one I've actually just come across in the current revision of its article: “ultimately meaningless rhetorical gymnastics”!