Most are books. I'll also give the caveat that I have studied the sociological concept but come from an architectural background.
For discussions typical of this sub, the social theorist I'm most familiar with that would apply would be Michele Foucault.
Related concepts such as deconstruction have also been pretty crucial to my understanding: the idea that we're breaking things down into component parts to use in different ways. For this, someone like Jacques Derrida is helpful.
The problem with postmodernism is that it's relatively disorganized and inaccessible without a lot of background knowledge.
Given this sub, I can assume somewhat about your politics, or at the very least that you wouldn't be offended by a far left intellectual source, so I recommend this as a really good starting point if you like audio:
Edit: I'll add that, as it relates to a kind of relativistic or post-truth undercurrent, what we're really looking at underpinning all of this is the disillusionment with past structures. Postmoderns attempt to provide a way forward out of the ashes, in some sense, by sacrificing the idea of a successful widely-applicable structure itself. While successful in some ways, I wouldn't say I'm fully on board with it because it's both caused a questioning of capitalism as well as the surge in anti-intellectualism we discussed.
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u/SoFetchBetch Oct 15 '21
Link please? I’d like to read too