Editing Postmodernity (section)

{{Short description|Societal state after modernity}}
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'''Postmodernity''' ('''post-modernity''' or the '''postmodern condition''') is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist ''after'' [[modernity]].{{refn|group=nb|In this context, "modern" is not used in the sense of "contemporary", but as a name for a specific period in history.}} Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century – in the 1980s or early 1990s – and that it was replaced by postmodernity, and still others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by postmodernity. The idea of the postmodern condition is sometimes characterized as a culture stripped of its capacity to function in any linear or autonomous state like regressive isolationism, as opposed to the progressive mind state of [[modernism]].{{sfn|Jameson|1991|p=27}}

Postmodernity can mean a personal response to a postmodern society, the conditions in a society which make it postmodern or the [[state of being]] that is associated with a postmodern society as well as a historical epoch. In most contexts it should be distinguished from [[postmodernism]], the adoption of [[Postmodern philosophy|postmodern philosophies]] or traits in the arts, culture and society.{{sfn|Ribeiro|2023|pp=124–125}} In fact, today's historical perspectives on the developments of [[postmodern art]] (postmodernism) and postmodern society (postmodernity) can be best described as two umbrella terms for processes engaged in an ongoing dialectical relationship like [[post-postmodernism]], the result of which is the evolving culture of the [[Contemporary history|contemporary world]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nilges |first1=Mathias |title=The Presence of Postmodernism in Contemporary American Literature |journal=[[American Literary History]] |date=Spring 2015 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=186–197 |doi=10.1093/alh/aju065}}</ref>

Some commentators deny that modernity ended, and consider the [[Aftermath of World War II|post-WWII]] era to be a continuation of modernity, which they refer to as [[late modernity]].