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Our paper on Culture Level Quotient has just been published: http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jrph/article/view/3784/3941 which is a non-technical explanation of the previous publication of “Fuzzy Completeness Theory” http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jrph/article/view/3725 http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/education/research/centres/stem/publications/pmej/pome35/index.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Post.science (talk • contribs) 07:16, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I have redirected the stub article Post-futurism here. Just making a post here. BSMRD (talk) 23:48, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What does this mean?

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid-to-late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism, marking a departure from modernism. The term has been more generally applied to describe a historical era said to follow after modernity and the tendencies of this era.

This is incomprehensible to someone who doesn't speak in social-science language. What does this mean **exactly**? It's a philosophical term? It deals with architecture? It's "critical" of something (what, exactly is the "criticism"?). It's a whole "movement"? Who are the participants in this "movement"? What does this soup salad ultimately mean?

Please be **precise** when you define this.

This is one of the few encyclopedia articles that has left me more confused after reading it. Please re-work this so a simple engineer can understand it, given this term is used in common English vernacular now, every day (ie. - an accusation is leveraged against an individual, concept or lifestyle for being "postmodern", which IMHO, should probably be hyphenated).