Some quotes and notes from “Cynical Theories”.

 “Postmodernism is defined by a radical skepticism about the accessibility of objective truth. Rather than seeing objective truth as something that exists and can be provisionally known (or approximated) through processes such as experimentation, falsification and defeasibility - as Enlightenment, modernist and scientific thought would have it - postmodern approaches to knowledge inflate a small, almost banal kernel of truth - that we are limited in our ability to know and must express knowledge through language, concepts and categories- to insist that ALL claims to truth are value-laden constructs of culture.”

“THEORY assumes that objective reality cannot be known, ‘truth’ is socially constructed through language and ‘language games’ and is local to a particular culture, and knowledge functions to protect and advance the interests of the privileged.”