postmodernism

I don’t know if I can actually define postmodernism in one blog post, because there are so many different aspects of it. Anyway, I guess I’ll just talk about a few. Absent Centers, Deconstruction, Self Awareness, Truth, Grand Narratives and many other pieces combine to make this, “postmodern theory.” Centers, or central ideas that people base their way of living off of are highly discouraged in this theory. In other words, the postmodern thinker would have one to believe that there is no one correct way to live, and that nothing should be forced upon you. Who’s to say that there is one right way to talk for example? Who’s to say that southern dialect or “gangsta” isn’t acceptable? The ridding of this center opens the minds of people and allow people to become more accepting of one another. Then we have deconstruction, where defining it breaks its own rules. What I mean to say is that deconstruction is all about breaking things down to their base, to say that nothing is “right,” and nothing is “wrong.” In MAUS II, we learned all about self awareness. Art Spiegelman recognized that what he was writing was a comic book, and not anything else. He didn’t try to represent the absolute truth, just one persons perception of it. And Grand Narratives, pretty much when someone comes up with an idea that can account for a lot of things. I don’t really agree with a lot of postmodern theory, but I do agree with some of it, and I’m glad to have widened my way of thinking, and expanded my knowledge of the subject. I can see why Mr. D is against grades and scantron tests and what not, since I too think that a lot of subjects cannot consist of the whole truth, but instead one’s perception of it, such as history.