Mapping Modernism / Postmodernism

This table is designed, in a very unpostmodern way, to lay out nice, neat binary oppositions between "modernisms" and "postmodernisms." It draws upon and synthesizes similar charts or lists in the works of Ihab Hassan, Donna Haraway, Frederic Jameson, David Harvey and Jean-Francois Lyotard, among others. Taken as a snapshot of a dynamic set of processes, it can perhaps be useful in setting up some initial definitions of the postmodern. But note that in one reading of pomo, modernism remains present even as it is posted. So watch the right column blur into, challenge, and momentarily obliterate the left column.Then watch the whole chart disappear, then reappear as historical materialism.

Modernism Postmodernism
Socioeconomics Monopoly Capital
Production
Goods / Things
Centralized  
Semi-Autonomous Culture
Multinational Capital
Reproduction
Services / Images / Information

Decentralized
Commodified Culture
Poetics Emotions
Subjectivity
Character    
Plot  
Parody    
Art Object      
Autonomy
High / Pop Distinct
Detective Model
Historical
Temporal Organization
Original
Closed Form / Product  
Epistemology
Universalizing  
Individual Style
Order
Author
Readerly
Metaphor
Paranoia
Random Intensities
Decentered Subject
Caricature
Labyrinth
Pastiche
Text
Intertextuality
Highpop Blend
Sci Fi Model
Historical(?)
Spatial Organization
Copy
Process
Ontology
Localizing
Free-Floating Codes
Chance
Discursive Field
Writerly
Metonomy
Schizophrenia
Representative Fields and Figures
Architecture
Music
Film
Painting
Dance
Psychology
Philosophy  
Sociology 
Le Courbusier / Wright
Stravinsky
Hitchcock / Renoir
Van Gogh / Expressionism
Duncan
Freud
Sartre
Marx
Portman / Venturi
Cage
DePalma / Lynch
Pop/ Photorealism
Cunningham
Lacan
Derrida
Baudrillard
Miscellaneous Figurations Representation
Organism
Biology
TB
Physiology
Reproduction  
Mind    
Labor
Simulation
Cyborg
Immunology
AIDS
Biotechnology
Replication
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics