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Postmodernism is a broad cultural, intellectual, and artistic movement that emerged in the mid-20th century as a reaction against modernist principles of progress, coherence, and universality. In philosophy and cultural theory, it is associated with thinkers such as Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, who questioned grand narratives, fixed identities, and stable meanings. The term is often used to describe tendencies across literature, visual arts, architecture, film, and social theory that began to gain prominence in the 1960s and 1970s and continued into the late 20th century and beyond.
Core features include skepticism toward universal or objective truths, an emphasis on language and representation as
In architecture, postmodernism rejected minimalist modernist forms in favor of eclectic styles that mix historical references
Postmodernism has been the subject of substantial debate and criticism, with critics arguing that extreme relativism