postmodernism
Postmodernism is a feast of contradictions that denies any solid truth while dismantling and preserving everything. It despises centers yet hijacks centrality, deconstructs narratives even as it spawns new discourses. It mocks universality and proclaims plurality, though that proclamation itself harbors the perversion of absolutization. In academia it is grandly cited, while in the public sphere it is casually consumed as a buzzword. It flaunts its sublime critique, yet everyone simultaneously plays the critic and the criticized in this theatrical contrivance.