Boiling down the essence of a Rian Johnson film often leaves one with what Peter J. Leithart has described as pop‑postmodernism: the cultural style of dismantling inherited forms while pretending to conjure meaning from the fragments. Unlike the dense theoretical postmodernism of Derrida or Foucault, pop‑postmodernism packages skepticism in witty, acces…
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