The postmodern condition

Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) in The Postmodern Condition (1979) writes: simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Grand narratives (Enlightenment progress through reason, Marxism's emancipation of the proletariat, capitalism's wealth through markets) have lost credibility in the age of computers and language games. Knowledge becomes paralogy: inventive moves within local language games rather than one big consensus.