First Sentence

"The term postmodern is used promiscuously to refer to a multitude of ideas, but I believe that there are three principal references in postmodern thought: (1) a series of distinctive cultural and stylistic practices that are in and of themselves intrinsically interesting; (2) the totality of such practices, viewed as a cultural ensemble characteristic of the contemporary epoch of capitalism (usually distinguished by the term postmodernity); and (3) a philosophical and methodological discourse antagonistic to the precepts of Enlightenment thought, most especially the hegemony of any single intellectual persuasion."