metonymy4u

To what does the term postmodernism refer? Literally everything after the modern. Functionally, a critique of the modern. Yet can skepticism alone define a cultural moment? 2500 years ago Plato was highly skeptical. And Derrida looked to him for much of his inspiration. Is it defined by the desire for neologism? Shakespeare alone is credited with 2000 neologisms. Perhaps it is simply the velocity of change that marks us apart from all prior communities. Our failure to keep up.