PostModernism

I really enjoyed this article because PostModernism is the world we live in right now. After reading the article it definitely gave me a true understanding for what PostModernism is, because if you're someone living in it, you might not be fully aware that history is being made right now and what exactly that history is. The article says that "in the PostModernism age, it is difficult to get through the day without confronting many different realities". I found this to be completely true because now in today's society everyone's culture and society are mixed together and intertwined that not one society "dominates" over the other. The definition for PostModernism that the author gives us is "mixing of identities, realities, cultures, races, gender roles, technologies, economies, cyberspaces, mediascapes" and the example he uses is if someone were to turn on the TV, they could hear an Irish band playing a song that has a mix of Indian raga, heavy metal, Mongolian chant, etc. This example shows the modern world we live in. 
Later in the article, the author talks about the artists are considered themselves postmodernists and he says that they are "explorers of past centuries" they "plunge into the unknown and then try to present it". I think what he means by this is that artists will take an old artwork and try to give their own twist on it to make it their own. The author also makes the idea of the hyperreal and how PostModernism is the idea where things seem more real than real and he uses the example of theme parks like DisneyWorld because DisneyWorld tries to create the realities that are within our imagination. 
Overall the article, (although the text was slightly cut off), was very enjoyable. PostModernism has no links or boundaries. It tries to collapse the distinction of high culture and low culture and incorporate our past with our present with our possible future. 

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