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The sixth is the Revolutionary concept of Tradition which is a new and different look at tradition as an explosive force. Tradition became the source of which modern forms and style could derive. .
Spender concludes that the art of poetry has receded because poets are limiting creation of contemporary writing by turning away from many areas of the modern world. As I understood it, this was because poets are not using revolutionary concepts of tradition to create but are concentrating just on tradition.
Terry Eagleton, Preface, from The Illusions of Postmodernism.
Eagleton defines postmodernism and postmodernity in this writing. The author refers to postmodernism as a form of contemporary culture and postmodernity as alluding to a specific historical period.
Eagleton describes postmodernity as "a style of thought which is suspicious of classical notions of truth, reason, identity and objectivity, of the idea of universal progress or emancipation, of single frameworks, grand narratives or ultimate grounds of explanation." It is the antithesis of the Enlightenment. .
Postmodernism is "a style of culture which reflects something of this epochal change, in a depthless, decentred, ungrounded, self-reflexive, playful, derivative, eclectic, pluralistic art which blurs the boundaries between "high" and "popular" culture, as well as between art and every day experience." .
In summary, postmodernism is playful and artsy whereas postmodernity is objective.
Chapter 14: Globalizing Mass Culture.
David Held, et al., "Historical Forms of Cultural Globalization".
Premodern, Pre- 1500, Extensity: While religion makes its way across many societies and cultures, all world religions as well as empires stay regional. Islam is the most global at this time from South Asia to North and East Africa. Density: Low. Velocity: Negligible. Impact Propensity: The original onset of world religions and empires changed ways of life due to literacy and alterations in worldviews.