week 3 ungs

• Postmodernism

  A trend to shift modern paradigm to a new paradigm
• Postmodernism

  • Belief that individuals are merely constructs of social forces
  • Rejection of any one worldview or explanation of reality
  • Rejection of the reality of objective truth
• Postmodernism

  • Stresses the priority of the social to the individual
  • Rejects the universalizing tendencies of philosophy
  • Prizes irony over knowledge
  • Gives the irrational equal footing with the rational in our decision procedures
• Postmodernism

  • Emphasis on the decenteredness of meaning
  • Value and autonomy of the local and the particular
  • Infinite possibilities of the human existence
  • Coexistence
• Postmodernism

  Efforts at reconfiguring the broken pieces of the modern world into a multiplicity of new social, political, and cultural arrangements
• Principles of Postmodernism


  • No absolute truth, truth is relative, contingency is everything
  • No reality
  • Simulacrum: Imagination and speculation
  • Meaningless and valueless
  • Total Doubt
  • Multiplicities of truth, ethnicities, diversities, and cultures
  • Equal representation for class gender sexual orientation
• Diversity


  Ensuring representation of varied social or collective identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, etc.
• Multiplicity of the postmodern era


  Allows people to engage in different communities and speak various languages, which would be appropriate for each community
• Ours is a time of skepticism: skepticism about truth, objectivity, knowledge, and even the possibility of understanding those different from ourselves
• Hyper-reality


  A simulated reality, where objective reality has long vanished and been replaced by this simulated existence, which because it is pure imagination, serves to convince us that objective reality exists
• Disneyland is pure imagination, but it serves to convince us that there is a real world that functions normally