“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is “incredulity toward metanarratives” is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
“Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which supposedly everybody now knows everything about what’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
“The reason for which Picasso was compelled to resort to signs and allegories should now be clear enough: his utter political helplessness… — Max Raphael Copy Share Image
“Modernism was based on a kind of arrogance ... and led designers to believe that if they thought of something cool, it… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and… — David K. Naugle Copy Share Image
Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism involves the loss of any hope that some larger-than-human force—be it God or History or Progress or Science or Reason—is going… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“What do I think was modernism’s subject, then? What was it about? No doubt you can guess my starting point. It was… — T. J. Clark Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“---In his major phase, he[Conrad] was "ahead of his times" in ideas and techniques;and this was because he was more intelligently and… — Cedric Watts A Preface to Conrad p184 Copy Share Image
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Yet she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreathes heaped and roses; and if… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums.… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
“From the postmodern anti-realist metaphysics and anti-reason epistemology, the postmodern social consequences follow almost directly. Once we set aside reality and reason,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
“The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows which way modernism is going, you create a form by breaking up a form, in an endless regression, just let… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“There is no escape. Eight billion humans won’t escape their issues by going to space. Our planet needs no terraforming, no cosmic… — Juan Pablo Quiñonez Copy Share Image
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