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Postmodernist

Defined variously as a reaction to modernism or merely the movement that followed it, postmodernism tends to refer to an intellectual, artistic, or cultural outlook or practice that is suspicious of hierarchy and objective knowledge and embraces complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, and diversity. Read More
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    Defined variously as a reaction to modernism or merely the movement that followed it, postmodernism tends to refer to an intellectual, artistic, or cultural outlook or practice that is suspicious of hierarchy and objective knowledge and embraces complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, and diversity.
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