Bonus: what, if any, is the relationship between 
postmodernism 
and existentialism?
Can anyone provide a comprehensive definition 
of postmodernism?
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probably the least offensive and most quoted definition is the skepticism of meta-narratives, a general distrust of the so-called objective and all-encompassing models of thought. In art, its generally a deconstruction of tropes and genre and/or a social critical lens. "IT SUBVERTED MY EXPECTATIONS" Existentialism is meaning-making. In philosophy everyone is talking to and responding to everyone so there's gonna be linkages. Night in the woods looks like a Bildungsroman and I dont see how it deconstructs the genre or medium in any meaningful way. YIIK is a postmodern game, it even says it on the title!
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What does this mean?
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A meta-narrative is a narrative about your history. The scientific revolution is the narrative, the meta-narrative is that there is a universal truth that can be experimented on such that humans can figure out what it is.
Without the ability to experiment on the universal truth in a way that humans can interpret independent of culture, then there was no truth to the scientific revolution, it was just a social power game.
The refutation to this is to just look at the Middle East or Africa without huffing your own farts.
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All wrong. Read a book.
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The Bible?
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Stuff like Christianity, Marxism, capitalism, science
Anything that claims to explain the world
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They're skeptical of some meta-narratives. Lot of them still love Marxism for its class analysis, and you've got Foucault going on and going about power and truth, trying to shape some meta-narrative from his rambling. They just can't help themselves but theorize.
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That's not a meta narrative π
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That's a nice meta-narrative you're telling yourself there
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Why me
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Dont you like dunking on stemcels who talk about philosophy?
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Post modernism is like: @Fresh_Start's guy, everything you experience and believe is from a human perspective. It's like, just another opinion of what reality is man. No shit sherlock. The part all of these r-slurs ignore is that it still does not take away from the fact that you are human, so it makes sense for you too perceive and pursue reality from a human perspective.
Jewish lives matter too Aevann.
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