What Is Postmodernism?

• See also One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

I define post modern as incredulity toward metanarratives

• In other words, skepticism toward big stories that we forward to each other about how the world works.
• This creates a problem for Postmodernism: it can critique the world, but cannot create a solution because then it would be creating its own metanarrative.

• 07:27: She explicitly states that she was attempting to fuse postmodern theory with contemporary politics.

1. Seeing the world through power and oppression

2. Rejecting modernist values and western values and replacing them with personal experience and cultural relativism

3. Seeing concepts through the lens of social construction

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.