Modern and postmodern views differ mainly by emphasis on recontainment versus resistance

Evidence

What appears to a postmodern view as society’s and culture’s malleability, mutability, and therefore potential for progressive change is, from modernity’s point of view, inevitably futile and illusory, because coopted and recontained. But postmodernity’s point of view in some ways involves only a slight shift in emphasis, from a negative focus on the recontainment postmodernism acknowledges as both inevitable and contestable to a positive emphasis on potentialities for resistance. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 126

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernist allusion and postmodern pastiche were indistinguishable in the sixties — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 663