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xkcd #3089: Modern (xkcd.com)
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Scholars are still debating whether the current period is post-postmodern or neo-contemporary.

https://explainxkcd.com/3089/

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

This was supposed to be a synthases of modern and post-modern, but it seems to me they took the worst parts of modernism and the straw-person caricature of the postmodern and mixed them in a blender.