Quick, what is postmodernism?

[Cain]

I'd hold YO MOMMA up as an example of postmodernist art, but I'm afraid my arms would break.

But yeah, lack of grand narratives. Skeptical of binary opposites.  Strange obsession with pop culture.  The self is a fiction.  Interpretation takes precedence over creation (in literary circles).  Subversion and destabalization of meaning.  Etc.

Its worth having some literary analysis skills before delving into postmodernist/poststructuralist works

[Verbal Mike]

Yeah, retrospectively I'm kinda pissed that the prof expects students to make a short presentation on Postmodernism in the six week of our first semester... This is some complicated shit... But then again, this whole student presentation thing seems like a really forced testing tool, I don't think the prof has much of a choice but to have presentations on every major topic we deal with.

[Cain]

Some names that might help.

Lyotard
Michael Foucault
Jacques Derrida
Deleuze and Guattari
Lacan

[Cramulus]

Can you have slides in the background?

because that would really make it easy to get an A+

[LMNO]

In philosophy, its a critical and normally somewhat nihilistic attempt to uncover hidden implicit assumptions within Western philosophical frameworks, then expose them, then write long books which sound like gibberish explaining it.

To really understand postmodern philosophy, you may want to look into Critical Theory first. 

Like most things, it has its applications, but someone (yes I'm looking at YOU Lacan) tries to take it too far.

See, I told you Cain would have the best answer.

[Verbal Mike]

We're talking really, really brief here. As in, I have about 3 minutes max. No slides possible without getting all the equipment myself, and it's not worth it cause it's not actually graded. It's just a thing that has to be done. Bleh.
I'm still waiting for a reply from the guy I'm supposed to be presenting with, and I'm away from tomorrow till Sunday night... The presentation is on Tuesday... So I'm going to be doing all of the preparations on Monday evening. Awesome.

[Verbal Mike]

But yeah, thanks for you all the input, it's definitely helped clear up my understanding of the subject.

[Manta Obscura]

In philosophy, its a critical and normally somewhat nihilistic attempt to uncover hidden implicit assumptions within Western philosophical frameworks, then expose them, then write long books which sound like gibberish explaining it.

To really understand postmodern philosophy, you may want to look into Critical Theory first. 

Like most things, it has its applications, but someone (yes I'm looking at YOU Lacan) tries to take it too far.

See, I told you Cain would have the best answer.

Cain is like that one kid on the block who always had all the best toys, except the block is PD and the toys are technical, political or philosophical explanations.