In most recent episode Post Modernity is addressed. It features and man and a woman, who are obsessed with looking and acting just like Ken and Barbie. They have both even gotten their nipples removed in their attempt to be as close to their plastic counterparts as possible. They refer to this relationship as the "post modern couple." Apparently the post modern couple does not engage in any sort of physical interaction, leaving the emotions to solidify what is lacking physically. It's always fun to see topics incorporated into the mainstream media, especially with a show that errs on the side of vulgar. Once the male "Ken" realizes he is gay, he finds another doll-enthusiast, who models himself after G.I. Joe. They again refer to themselves as the "Post-Modern" couple. Perhaps this is in reference to them being gay. Homosexual relationships are gradually becoming more and more accepted as each day passes. And maybe nipple-removing, doll-emulating people are the perfect example on just how strange Post Modern, without limits, can get.

This article goes into detail regarding Post Modern thought in Poetry. Citing a backlash of the overly-processed, restrained poetry dating before the 1960s, Post Modern poetry was a backlash. Post Modernity has little to no boundaries, it makes sense to see it occur in Poetry, which also can come in many different forms. Poetry can be extremely structured or rambling and incoherent. It is described as "free-wheeling creations constructed of a language that largely points to itself." There are four aspects of Post Modern Poetry listed within. Iconoclasm, groundlessness, formlessness and populism. A sub-category under Iconoclasm would be "contradicts the expected, often deliberately alienating the reader." Nothing better than feeling alienated when one is reading what is written to be read. Also "subverts its sources by parody, irony and pastiche" and "denounces ethnic, gender and cultural repression." Groundlessness includes "regards both art and life as fictions, sometimes mixing the two in magic realism or multiple endings" and "argues that meaning is indeterminate, denying a final or preferred interpretation." Many scholars would love the idea of multiple endings, while getting headaches from the fact that there may not being one single interpretation. Formlessness includes aspects of poetry that have been seen many times lately, "fragments texts, turning them into collages or montages." Populism is what makes these forms appealing to the masses. These poems reject elite thoughts, and often focus on ideas that go across a wide spectrum. It "avoids the serious and responsible, promoting the arbitrary and playful."

Being skeptic of the supernatural, i.e. God, is considered a Modern aspect. Taking that a step further, Postmoderns are "skeptical of any and all claims to an authoritative comprehensive worldview, absolute truth about reality, and an overarching purpose to the human story." They're basically saying that they dismiss too much structure. The Church, as an institution, would be far too structured, on top of the idea of a supernatural God. There are too many pieces of life that are connected, even controlled by the presence of a religious establishment. The theory of how we were created, for what purpose, how we should lead our lives, and what happens to us at the end of our lives would be too much for a postmodern thinker "In short, it could be said that religious metanarratives were dismissed by modernism. Man-made ones are dismissed by postmodernism." Therefore it is easy to see, via this article, that without Modernism, we would have no Post Modernism. Though this seems basic enough, and simple to understand, one must realize that in order to determine what is Post Modern, one must always consider if it is Modern first. This is a very hard thing for people to grasp, but this article does make it a little clearer to understand, and does lay things out to make it a little easier. This article also goes about trying to determine where Modernism began and ended, and where Post Modernism did the same.

This article on JSTOR seeks to define the line between Modernity and Post Modernity...without calling it a line. "On the one hand 'post-modernism' is seen as abstract, exotic, fanciful: on the other, it is everyday, experienced, intimate." The abstract from the article itself claims that it argues "that such polarizing metaphors are distinctions that cannot be made without self-contradictions that would make even a post-modernist blush. Instead, we must deconstruct the notion of boundary or border…" Most important to this journal is the idea that there are no boundaries or borders because simply naming things as such is not Post Modern at all. The Modern way of thinking is just in love with categories and lists and the like, whereas to put Post Modernity on one side of a list or the other would negate the idea of studying Post Modernity. "The ambition of the article is to explore a way of deconstructing the unspeakable 'slash' between modernism/post-modernism that can model how similar arguments may be deployed against a wide range of educational topics where questions of identity and difference are brought to the fore, such as equal opportunities, special needs, antiracism, as well as more mundane categories of pupil or teacher-or researcher-identity."

Post Modernity, though a seemingly ambiguous term, has been applied to your everyday lives in this article. The phrase "after modernity" makes it seem as though it is impossible to be used in any sense other than a futuristic one, but as this article shows, it can actually be applied to history, biblical interpretations, and today's healthcare. There are nine listed topics: Education, healthcare, history, religion, literature law and government, biblical interpretation, science, and, psychotherapy. This page on the site makes Post Modernity relatable outside of a philosophical, highly intellectual atmosphere. According to the document, the post-modern thinker does not need to accept or follow or even believe in any religion, but will stop any one religion from silencing another. Everyone has an equal chance. The topic on Education claims that teachers no longer hand out information, but merely give children the means to gather information themselves. This is incredibly true. The article claims that Post Modernism will be encountered by everyone on a daily basis and gives the nine examples to prove it.

1)http://www.xenos.org/MINISTRIES/crossroads/pmandyou.htm

Post modernism and you.

9 ways that the theory post modernism affect you and your everyday life. Education, healthcare, history, religion, literature law and government, biblical interpretation, science, and, psychotherapy.

2) http://www.textetc.com/modernist/postmodernism.html

Postmodernism in poetry.

Began in the 60s, 4 aspects in poetry.


3) http://www.allaboutworldview.org/postmodernism-critique.htm

Creating a postmodern critique.
Skeptism towards supernatural beings ---> modern.

Postmoderns are skeptical of any and all claims to an authoritative comprehensive worldview, absolute truth about reality, and an overarching purpose to the human story.

In short, it could be said that religious metanarratives were dismissed by modernism. Man-made ones are dismissed by postmodernism.


4)nip/tuck

Refers to the post modern couple. one that is above sexual relation. Ken and barbie.

5) http://www.jstor.org/stable/1501426?&Search=yes&term=modernism&term=post&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dpost%2Bmodernism%26x%3D0%26y%3D0%26wc%3Don&item=12&ttl=18540&returnArticleService=showArticle

j-stor.modernity vs post modernity, where is the line between the two?

"On the one hand 'post-modernism' is seen as abstract, exotic, fanciful: on the other, it is everyday, experienced, intimate."