Article Review On Reading Summary: Post Modernism

The overarching theme that the author addresses in this article is post-modernism. Various schools of thought have sought to deconstruct those traditional institutions that have been formulated by western rationality and enlightenment. Many scholars have believed that the dominant socio-political forces within society have played a vital role in the creation of institutions and perceptions that we have held as being reality. These perceptions that we have believed to be modernity are in retrospect not a reflection of reality because they are not inclusive of the minority within different societal frameworks.
The epistemological and ontological foundations on the universal truths and realities are based on the arbitrarily exclusion of minority perspectives. This means that what we believe to true and the trajectory of history is in in reality not true. Post-modernist authors therefore seek to emancipate our understanding of the universal truths by explaining the idea that the majority socio-political forces in society have highly influenced the process of knowledge formation. This means that the universal truths that we deeply cherish today are reflective of the interests and constructs of the majority and masculine forces within society. Considering that post-modernist rationality is based on emancipation intent, post-modernists has argued that the universal truths and institutions that shape society today are based on a hierarchy. The author cites the growth of critical theories that seek to emancipate human understanding from the hierarchies that have been created by the dominant social economic forces within society.
According to the author, the emancipation forces propagated by post-modernists and other critical theorists and philosophers are also evident. Many film directors have over time denounced mainstream interpretation of events as reflected in the content of their films. A good number of current films have embraced plurality by acknowledging that the world is not only made of western cultures and rationality. The author explains that it is evident in many films that there is a two way of looking at major events such as fiction and science fiction. This has also been evident in how modern films and cinemas paint events as communism and the capitalist market.