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Yes, postmodern is playable

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"Postmodern" Definition

adjective

Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: "It [a roadhouse]is so architecturally interesting . . . with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock” ( Ruth Reichl).
Of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one .
Of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature).
Of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language .

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