Postmodernism + Modernism

•  There is no metanarrative --> the big story --> post modernism --> modernism

• Modernism --> If there is a metanarrative there is an answer for every question through rationality. Man can create a better world.
         - Rule 1: No ornamentation (reaction to Victiorianism)
         - Central Station: Less is more (reductionism)
         - Bauhaus Era

• Post Modernism --> No single answer to a question. We accept the world as it is. The rules can be broken

• There is fragmentation
  Many different stories
  Uncertain but established
  - No post-modernists accept the world as it is
  - Modernism attacked popular culture
  - Entered a complicitous relationship with the dominant culture rather than holding a superior attitude to it
  - Characteristics such as: fragmentation, impurity of form, deathlessness, indeterminacy, intertexuality, pluralism, eclecticism and a return to the vernacular.
  - Ceases to be the goal. Parody, pastiche and the ironic recycling.
  - Memphsis - Furniture and product design in Italy