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> The idea that art has an overall goal of advancing or perfecting its terms and techniques is made up. Imagined. Idiotic. Except to those benefiting from this intellectual fundamentalism. Someday, people will look back at this phase of art history the way we look back at manifest destiny and colonialism.

I wonder what name historians will give this period...

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Post-modern

To be fair, postmodernism is totally opposed to ideas like progress or "perfecting" or any sort of fundamentalism at all. In fact, the best criticism of postmodernism is that, when they're done deconstructing, they leave nothing at all behind.

I interpreted the author's hypothetical future to be an extension of post-modern ideals. It would be weird to call all of art history up to that point of supposed enlightenment "post-modern".

The irony of the article I was trying to point out is that even if there is a future where all media and styles are equally respected and not held as having any intrinsic value, historians will still need to come up with terms to describe the past and present; and whatever those terms actually are, they'll likely imply a narrative of progress.

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