Kernodle's Fluidism Promotes New Worldview - Postmodernism Is Dead

PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 27, 2008 – USA, North Carolina artist, Robert Kernodle says that postmodernism is out, and fluidism is in.

"Fluidism" is Kernodle's label for a form of art he realized in the year 2000.  While perfecting his style during the following years, he eventually associated it with deeper ideas about life and existence.

Strongly influenced by the writings of Gerald I. Lebau and Joel D. Morrison, Kernodle argues that pop postmodernism always has been a self-contradictory philosophy.

"Postmodernism", he says, "is the philosophical attitude that no particular thought system is any more sacred than any other.  Furthermore, all written accounts of human thought are equally valid narratives.  Ultimately, political power determines which written accounts are the standards."

Kernodle points out that this pop postmodernist claim clearly negates itself, because it is a claim against making claims.  It is a narrative about narratives, which raises itself above all others, which it forbids.  By asserting its own status over all other narratives, postmodernism does the very thing it says it cannot do.  It thereby proves human ability to reach common functional agreements collectively.

"Ideas", says Kernodle, "exist together as if in a big liquid pool, where pleasing structures develop harmoniously, even if chaotically."  He believes that ideas are complex entities that postmodernism simply mistreats.  He maintains that human beings grade into different stable preferences at different times in history.  These preferences enable people to operate practically in their own eras.  "This", Kernodle says, "is a more positive, creative way of looking at things."

Kernodle's art images and ideas appear on the internet.  Google "artist robert kernodle" or "fluidism".  Direct links are:

http://www.geocities.com/robertkernodle

http://thedb.com/fluidism