BiegieGo, Lyotard

“Modernity, in whatever age it appears, cannot exist without a shattering of belief and without discovery of the ‘lack or reality’ of reality, together with the invention of other realities. “What, then, is post modern?” “It is undoubtedly a part of the modern.” “In an amazing acceleration, the generations precipitate themselves. A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”
Although I did not understand this reading entirely, I pick out some quotes that I thought had some importance to my brain. The first quote about modernity came off to me as whatever the time period of the work or art or language is pretty much modern. Whatever is happening in that state of being is seen to me as realism. What is in the here and now is all that matters in that point in time for being the reality of real. With saying that is something does not come off as real then other real things can be really real so there for their can’t be any realism.
The bigger question we are looking at is “what is postmodern?” to really describe what postmodern is, would be saying that it is the modern. Whatever the modern is, is what the postmodern was. We can’t have the modern without the postmodern. Some believe that the postmodern is an era that has past but for me postmodern is the beginning of not end. It has happened but it continues to happen and it is changed a little but it will always be in the modern state. It will always be in the here in now even though it has already happened. So postmodern is never ending.