You have just opened your new textbook. You are sure that you are on your way to ‘understanding postmodernism'. The cover was intriguing, or was it just stupid. Did it matter? Did it make sense? Does it matter if it makes sense? You ponder this as your eyes begin to follow the lines of lines that shape letters that shape words that shape sentences that shape paragraphs that shape chapters that shape meaning if there is such a thing. The fact is a single pen stroke has just as much meaning or non meaning as a single letter as a single word as an entire novel…You hate this textbook already, or do you love it? Want the questions to stop? Want solid meaning? Well too bad because this is postmodernism and though you may find meaning you can never hold it for even an instant. Multiple factors of multiple levels of reasoning.

Postmodernism is essentially a rebellion against the concepts of modernism which is concerned mainly with the search for the ‘fundamental truth' that lies beneath human