Postmodern style

Postmodern text can be identified by its eclecticism, demonstrating an erosion of aesthetic and stylistic boundaries. It reflects the pluralistic nature of contemporary culture.
Postmodern texts will employ a range of referential techniques and  Postmodern texts deliberately play with meaning.
Featherstone describe postmodernism as “stylistic promiscuity” 
Postmodernity = breaking of boundaries
Postmodernism reproduction and  re-consumption
Modernism is production and consumption.
Postmodern culture is driven by a consumer culture that celebrates the surface.
He states the postmodern condition is “ a new kind of flatness, of depthlessness, a new kind of superficiality in the most literal sense”. 

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