Difference between Modernism and Post-Modernism

Modernism	Post-Modernism
Romanticism/symbolism	Paraphysics/Dadaism
Purpose	Play… Desert Bus, straw models
Design	Chance… CD cover (Mrs Abrahamson)
Hierarchy	Anarchy… Hobo with a Shotgun
Matery, logos	Exhaustion, silence… Desert Bus
Art object, finished	Process of art… Dan Black Symphonies
Word	Performance… ‘Do the daft’
Distance	Participation… Wii
Creation, totalization	Deconstruction… everything
Synthesis	Antithesis… ‘Where Is My Mind’
Presence	Absence… Desert Bus
Centering	Dispersal… Scott Pilgrim, Daft Punk
Genre, boundary	Text, intertext… intertexual reference
Semantics	Rhetoric… questions
Paradigm	Syntagm
Narrative	Anti-narrative
Grande histoire	Petite histoire
Genital, phallic	Polymorphous… Lady Gaga