The challenges of defining postmodernism include how many different disciplines have examples of this school of thought. Film, music, visual arts, literature, even architecture can be classed as having examples of what are a group of theories that rejects Enlightenment modernism, such as objective knowledge, certainty in beliefs such as the power of science and technology, and even that we can understand society and nature at all. 

Jean-Francis Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition suggests that it’s a ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’, and that while theories like Marxism have been tried and tested, there’s still not a given answer as to how one should view the world. The natural confusion and conflict that you can have about the world is better handled by recognising that there’s localised narratives that recognise different valid perspectives. Other philosophers that have investigated postmodernism include Deluze, Foucault and Baudrillard.

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