The basic features of what is now called postmodernism can be found as early as the 1940s, most notably in the work of artists such as Borges. However, most scholars today agree postmodernism began to compete with modernism in the late 1950s and gained ascendancy over it in the 1960s.
The primary features of postmodernism typically include the ironic play with styles, citations and narrative levels, a metaphysical skepticism or nihilism towards a grand narrative of Western culture.
The Cancel Culture, which the likes of Brooks bemoans, and which DK refers to here,
is merely the rolling out and logical extension of things like The Making of a Counter Culture , required reading for me by the faculty in college.
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