What's the difference/relationship between absurdism and postmodernism?
>>7816157
Postmodernism isn't real. Modernism has just been decaying for the past seventy something years.
>>7816157
absurdism (as its name implies) focuses on the absurdity and inherent meaninglessness of life.
postmodernism is more of a complicated issue, and can be seen as an umbrella-term for various things including anti-Enlightenment values (caused by both world wars); capitalism and consumerism; the analysis and death of ideology; etc.
Metamodernism is the present, past and future.
you can find some links to relevant writing about it here as well as some chill metamodern music
https://craigculberton.bandcamp.com/album/book-of-the-damned
Postmodernism is an evolution of modernism with no clearly defined or agreed upon characteristics. Postmodernism has trickled into the entirety of our culture. Family Guy is as postmodern as John Barth. It is therefore a pointless term to use unless discussing 'Postmodernists' like John Barth who have helped shape our understanding of the term.
>>7816557
This is correct.
What literary school are we in right now?
>>7816577
metamodernism. it's just interesting because the academic class that would normally be talking about it has been outpaced by the metamodern artists that have identified the era autonomously and the critical class has not caught up yet.
