MODERNISM - POSTMODERNISM - HYPERMODERNISM
A few friends and I were sitting at dinner discussing school and such arose the topic of modernism, postmodernism and hypermodernism. This discussion began from a confusion that was brought upon by some inter-related readings. Our discussion is as follows:
What REALLY is postmodernism?? We know that postmodernism consists of no absolutes and is referential of history... And what is hypermodernism then? It must preceed postmodernism by understanding, and thus a premeditated theory about a state of culture and society to come...
Our absolute answer to the latter two, laid in the first... modernism. Modernism was born from a state of industrialization and finite and absolutes (especially in terms of the rigidity of form). Modernism can be seen as an reaction to the the baroque, rococo, and gothic, and a pace and state of life which is associated with the past. Thus can modernism, postmodernism, and hypermodernism can be simply understood as a pendulum of action and reaction? If modernism is of absolutes, then postmodernism is a reaction to those absolutes, granting the freedom of no absolutes. And thus hypermodernism is a reaction to postmodernism, an attempt to redefine a state of postmodern which would be found to be no longer representative of a current state of affairs, and would attempt to provide a definition somewhere between postmodernism and hypermodernism.
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