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@KronoMoon

To me postmodern writing is fragmented and nonlinear narratives like "Slaughterhouse-Five", metafiction and self-reflexivity like Wallace's "Infinite Jest", intertextuality like his novel "The Broom of the System" and the reflexive "engagement" with and against culture and society; for me capitalism with all its ills in my novel "The Beauty of Aqua." Downloadable from the Internet Archive under a CC license because books like thoughts should be free to spread.

Thank you for your thoughts, @brianbeeler.
Postmodernism in the arts, including the books that you cite, often looks at the world through a spectrum of perspectives. Venues, museums and publishers in turn look at the works with similar eyes toward multiplicity, favoring #diversity (for good reasons) over narrower notions of what is finest or best.

At the same time that society is 'pluralizing' its tastes in culture(s), it is also seeing deeper truths in concepts like #manyworlds or #futures.

@KronoMoon

I enjoy the postmodern ecstatic because it doesn't want confirm one's biases but challenge them, like the work of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.

I write my fiction not to make people feel good; I write my fiction for people to feel something new and different.

Thanks for making your post. it was good to read.

@brianbeeler
In #Rothko and #Pollock we see the diverging of new ideas in painting and the arts that are still unfolding and expanding today. Rothko's rooms and chapels are wonderful places to visit. #Meditative

Good luck with your novel, 'The Beauty of Aqua', available for free from the @internetarchive
https://Archive.org/details/the_beauty_of_aqua/