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To add to this, AFAIK postmodernism is actually a critique of modernism rather than a being a substitute for it. This critique may/will eventually produce a concept which can replace modernism.

I found that enlightening, but it is probably also splitting hairs with regards to the blog post.



It's also important to remember that "postmodernism" is at this point about 130 years old.


> It's also important to remember that "postmodernism" is at this point about 130 years old.

You're thinking of Modernism. Postmodernism is more like 60 years old, depending on how you draw the line, and it's still an ongoing and developing set of philosophies.


The term was used in the 1880s in painting circles; it probably varies by field


>The term was used in the 1880s in painting circles

Not in any great capacity that culture in general was aware of.

Only in the mid-20th century, and especially post 60s, it became an actual thing with the meaning we associate with it.




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