Effects Of Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a late 20th century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. It is often associated with deconstruction and post-structuralism because its usage as a term gained significant popularity at the same time as 20th century post-structural thought. It remains among the most controversial of theories in the humanities and social sciences. It has regularly been accused of moral and political delinquency. This chapter is divided into four main sections, which are the relationship between power and knowledge in the study of international relations, the textual strategies employed by postmodern approaches, how postmodernism deals with the state, and postmodernism’s attempt to rethink

It might be better to say it is concerned with exposing the textual interplay within power politics, for the effects of textuality do not remain behind politics, but are intrinsic to them. Textuality is a common postmodern theme. Deconstruction is a general mode of radically unsettling what are taken to be stable concepts and conceptual oppositions. Its main point is to demonstrate the effects and costs produced by the settled concepts and oppositions, to disclose the parasitical relationship between opposed terms and to attempt a displacement of them. There are two readings that seek to expose by Derrida. As he expressed double reading is essentially a duplicitous strategy which is simultaneously faithful and violent. The first reading is a commentary or repetition of the dominant interpretation – that is, a reading which demonstrates how a text, discourse or institution achieves the stability-effect. The second, counter-memorializing reading unsettles it by applying pressure to those points of instability within a text, discourse, or institution. It exposes the internal tensions and how they are covered over or

Postmodern attempts to develop a new conceptual language to represent world politics beyond the terms of state-centrism in order to rethink the concept of the political. Postmodernism’s ethical critique of state sovereignty needs to be understood in relation to the deconstructive critique of totalization and the deterritorializing effect of transversal struggles. To rethink questions of political identity and community without submitting to binary oppositions is to contemplate a political life beyond the paradigm of sovereign states. There are two strands of ethics which develop out of postmodernism’s reflections on international relations. One strand challenges the ontological description on which traditional ethical arguments are grounded. It advances a notion of ethics which is not predicated on a rigid, fixed boundary between inside and outside. Another strand focuses on the relation between ontological grounds and ethical arguments. The consequence of taking postmodernism’s critique of totality and sovereignty seriously is that central political concepts such as community, identity, ethics and democracy are rethought to avoid being persistently reterritorialized by the sovereign state. The thrust of postmodernism has always been to challenge both epistemological and