One generation builds a clean, confident set of rules and calls it modern. The next generation stands behind that and talks back to it: borrowing the old shapes on purpose, mixing them, quoting them, joking with them, and doubting that any single style or single truth is the right one. The word marks that position — after the rules, and pointed at them.
可以想成有一代人先立下一套乾淨、自信的規矩，叫做現代主義。下一代人站在那之後，對著那套規矩說話：故意借舊形狀、把它們混在一起、引用它、拿它開玩笑，也不再相信只有一種正確的風格或一個完整的真相。postmodern 標示的就是這個位置——在那之後，而且是朝著那個方向講話。
From the word’s history
From post- plus modern: post- is the Latin-derived prefix meaning after. The word is a position in time first, and an attitude second.
由 post-（來自拉丁文 post，意思是「在……之後」）加上 modern 組成。這個字先是一個時間位置，之後才長出態度的意思——先是「在那之後」，才變成「對那套規矩有意見」。
Wiktionary, "postmodern"
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