20세기 후반 모더니즘의 이성 중심주의에 반대하며 일어난 예술 및 철학적 경향으로, 절대적 진리나 거대 담론을 부정함.
A late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism, characterized by a general distrust of grand theories and an emphasis on irony and self-reference.
예문:
"The film's use of irony and pastiche is a hallmark of postmodernism."
"Postmodernism rejects the rigid structures of traditional academic thought."