Some critics have complained that the ubiquity of the term "intertextuality" in postmodern criticism has crowded out related terms and important nuances.

Any radical postmodern criticism must, therefore, be poststructuralist.

That in turn implies postmodern cultural criticism can deepen the modernist urge toward mastery by eliminating the ontological weight of the nonhuman world.

By contrast Sontag's postmodern criticism aggressively disputed such a separation of text and life.

Antirealists point to either the history of science, epistemic morals, the success of false modeling assumptions, or widely termed postmodern criticisms of objectivity as evidence against scientific realisms.

The later 20th century saw the rise of postmodern and literary criticism, critical theory, narratology, feminism and other identity politics, and film theory, all which was applied to sonata forms.

Thus, postmodern cultural criticism deepens the modernist urge toward mastery by eliminating the ontological weight of the nonhuman world.

In postmodern literary criticism, it has also been discussed in relation to race issues in fiction.

Certainly, when in 1996 the physicist Alan Sokal got a spurious paper on "quantum hermeneutics" published in the journal of postmodern criticism, Social Text, the postmodernists weren't laughing.

Relativism was accepted as an unavoidable truth, which led to the period of contemporary art and postmodern criticism, where cultures of the world and of history are seen as changing forms, which can be appreciated and drawn from only with irony.