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This is rather vague actually. Postmodernism lumps together hundreds of ideas and concepts. These ideas vary greatly in their usefulness and their bullshit content. Any statement broad enough to cover all of postmodernism is trivial and unhelpful- I'm not sure there is a "Postmodernism for rationalists" waiting to be written. For a general overview the wikipedia article is really, really good.
Also, attention RationalWiki writers: Derrida was not the founder of postmodernism.
But maybe there are some specific topics or methods or approaches that would fall under "postmodernism" or "critical theory" or "deconstruction", and that could be interesting or useful to rationalists.
Or something like "this is how postmodernists would approach such-and-such a subject, and their analysis has some value in this case".