Week 4 - Barker, Ch.7 (Postmodernism)

Postmodernism discussions begin with understanding modernism. Modernism is characterized here by the period including the rise of technology and industrialization that offers global wealth and threatens global destruction. It is both humanistic and carries "high culture." Foucault, drawing from Nietzsche, begins to break away the foundation of modernism casting doubt on universal truth and a "grand narrative." "All truth is "culture-bound." Is there a "public sphere" in which to form general opinions? Postmodernism collapses boundaries between previously separate entities (ex. high and low culture).