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postmodern

The idea that there is no objective meaning, only subjective meaning, the meaning one brings to a thing, irrespective of the intent of the author, or of the Author, or of reality.

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by joejoejoe on May 22, 2013 22:43:51

simply put, anything connected with yuppie hipster culture.

may it be architecture you see in gentrified areas (such as the god-ugly condo towers) or the pretentious wank that get's praised on Sundance, Pitchfork, whatsoever...

Example:
"the fabolous buttplug and the unbearable waking of armin meiwes" is a paradigmatic examination of transgressive existentialism of the postmodern deconstruction of precannibalist postanalfisting.

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by mitsui on Sep 14, 2008 11:11:52

any art that is aware of the fact that is in, in fact, art.

or more cynically, any art that is aware of the fact that it is, in fact, product.

Example:
MTV's Real World is a very postmodern television program

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by planit on Jul 27, 2005 17:34:56

whatever you want it to mean. A generation X that thinks outside of the box or has abandoned many if not all of the norms/precepts of a postwar generation

Example:
He said "no i'm not going to the wedding, photoshop me in later" well that's a bit too postmodern!

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by mhattsh on Aug 30, 2007 13:47:27

Postmodern is a term that therefore refers to violations of whatever laws or theories or traditions or established thoughts even before they were created. Postmodern is whatever you want the truths to be. They will always be true to you anyways. So what? Who cares! This is deviance.

Example:
Postmodern mind-buggler: You are a stranger. Are you a part of the society of not?

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by eeveergreen on Jul 11, 2019 01:22:20

acknowledging complexity in a way that makes conservatives uncomfortable :(

Example:
I can't believe all those postmodern neo-Marxists are trying to make us believe that gender is more complex than "penis boy, vagina girl"! This is why Western civilization is dying.

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by tahabgd on Mar 12, 2010 21:41:10

Postmodernism is the ultimate lubricant invented by social sciences in order to fuck every concept and structure that humans ever came up with. At the same time it is used as a means for social sciences to penetrate one another.

Example:
Anthropology put some postmodernism on its cock and managed to penetrate History so deep that it screamed...then it turned towards Political Science, which fainted immediately.

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by BlackSpray on May 16, 2015 05:30:59

The most effective way to kill brain cells. An endeavor mostly pursued by people who hated math in high school. Postmodernism is

Example:
"I took a postmodernism class last term. Now half of my brain is rotten"

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by rackham on Mar 12, 2009 02:41:16

A term that you keep on hearing about in college and have to look up on Wikipedia. Basically says "fuck it" to the search for any intellectual conclusions.

Example:
Once you look up postmodernism on Wikipedia, feel free to sound smart around your friends by using it in conversations!

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by pabst smear on May 19, 2011 09:52:06

Postmodernism has no definition. That's what makes it so postmodern.

Example:
This example is postmodernism incarnate.

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