different between postmodern vs dieselpunk

English

Alternative forms

• pomo
• post-modern

Etymology

From post- +? modern.

Adjective

postmodern (comparative more postmodern, superlative most postmodern)

1. Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism.
   • 1937, John Q. Stewart, "An Astronomer Looks at the Modern Epoch," The Scientific Monthly, vol. 44, no. 5 (May), page 402,

     The nearer is a fact to the temporary limits of knoweldge, the more implicated becomes this regression and the more blurred ought to be statement of fact. Bridgman of Harvard recently has emphasized this conclusion, but his postmodern position has as yet made small impression.

   • 2001, Kristen Renwick Monroe, "Paradigm Shift: From Rational Choice to Perspective," International Political Science Review, vol. 22, no. 2. (Apr), page 167 n22,

     What I am objecting to is that aspect of postmodern thought that rejects the idea of any objective reality.

   • 2005, Janet R. Barrett, "Planning for Understanding: A Reconceptualized View of the Music Curriculum," Music Educators Journal, vol. 91, no. 4. (Mar), page 25,

     For an illustration of the differences between the traditional, positivist curriculum and the more postmodern reconceptualized curriculum, see Hanley and Montgomery.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

postmodern (plural postmoderns)

1. A postmodernist.

References

• “postmodern” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "postmodern" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

Swedish

Etymology

post- +? modern

Adjective

postmodern (not comparable)

1. postmodern

Declension

Related terms

• postmodernism

Anagrams

• domprosten

English

Etymology

diesel +? -punk

Noun

dieselpunk (uncountable)

1. A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the “diesel era” by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
   • 2002, November 20, Charlie Stross, "Re: What "steampunk" genre?", in rec.arts.sf.written, Usenet:

     In other words, steampunk explores adjustment to an industrial culture from the opposite direction to cyberpunk -- but has very much the same agenda. Me, I'm trying to write dieselpunk ...

   • 2007, Sean Demory, quoted in Brian McTavish, "Kansas City writer, artist publish digital comic book for cell phones", in The Kansas City Star, 2007 July 25, page F3:

     […] post-apocalyptic dieselpunk action adventure […]

   • 2010 March 19, Teresa Lott, "Re: I hate steampunk...", in rec.arts.sf.written, Usenet:

     BioShock isn't steampunk, it's dieselpunk.

Related terms

• steampunk

See also

• dieselpunk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia