# What the -bleep- is Postmodernism?

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**Created:** [June 18, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-bleep-is-postmodernism/543717 "2010-06-18T22:11:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-bleep-is-postmodernism/543717/21 "2010-06-20T17:24:19Z")

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“postmodern burger,” sorry (no edit?)

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**Author:** ![Hamtronix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@Hamtronix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamtronix)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-bleep-is-postmodernism/543717/22 "2010-06-22T01:05:05Z")

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Your question made me sign up to post. I was in a video years back that answers your query:

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbONkZsduZs)

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLEgfv9bOtA)

hope that helps

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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-bleep-is-postmodernism/543717/23 "2010-06-22T02:45:30Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Each area of the arts and humanities has a postmodernist movement, but their meaning and evolution have diverged widely over the decades. (Their origins, too. We’ve had several threads arguing over the start of postmodernism in literature and who belongs on which side of the divide.)

Also, developments in science usually precede what turns up in philosophy, and thereby, cultural studies.

The understanding in physics that by measuring something you change it is analogous to what post-modernism is for cultural studies.

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