Modernism vs Postmodernism
Modernism	Postmodernism
romanticism/symbolism	paraphysics/Dadaism
form (conjunctive, closed)	antiform (disjunctive, open)
purpose	play
design	chance
hierarchy	anarchy
mastery/logos	exhaustion/silence
art object/finished work/logos	process/performance/antithesis
centering	absence
genre/boundary	text/intertext
semantics	rhetoric
metaphor	metonymy
root/depth	rhizome/surface
signified	signifier
narrative/grande histoire	anti-narrative/petite histoire
genital/phallic	polymorphous/androgynous
paranoia This is a great example of modernism because when a person has paranoia they are annoyed and talk to themselves	schizophrenia this is a great example of post modernism because when a person has schizophrenia they hear multiple voices showing that in post modernism there are many lenses or voices to criticism not just one singular voice as shown in modernism
origin/cause	difference-difference/trace
God the Father	The Holy Ghost
determinacy	interdeterminacy
transcendence	immanence