What Is Pomo

What is PoMo? Postmodernism, Postmodernity, PostModern Philosophy

The instability of your question leaves me with several contradictorily layered responses whose interconnectivity cannot express the logocentric coherency you seek. I can only say that reality is more uneven and its (mis)representations more untrustworthy than we have time here to explore. Schematic Differences between Modernism and Postmodernism

Modernism romanticism/symbolism

Postmodernism paraphysics/Dadaism

design

chance

hierarchy

anarchy

matery, logos

exhaustion, silence

art object, finished word

process, performance

creation, totalization

deconstruction

synthesis

antithesis

presence

absence

centering

dispersal

semantics

rhetoric

paradigm

syntagm

metaphor

metonymy

selection

combination

depth

surface

interpretation

against interpretation

genital, phallic

polymorphous

paranoia

schizophrenia

origin, cause

difference-difference

God the Father

The Holy Ghost

determinacy

indeterminacy

transcendence

immanence

(SOURCE: Hassan "The Culture of Postmodernism" Theory, Culture, and Society, V 2 1985, 123-4.) PostModern Philosophy is practically the game of negating all the philosophies which originated before it (classical, romantic, modern). This movement began through Nietzche, Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, who implanted the ideas of the separation between the “I” and that which exists. All becomes perception and everything is a mis-reading. Major Players

Jacque Derrida