In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
“...a little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what… — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power. — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“in a postmodern world, even gods and sacred objects must travel or lose their vitality; any deity that remained stuck in its… — Okey Ndibe Copy Share Image
“when it comes to the postmodern applications and contemporary relevance of depth psychology, the Jungian perspective is where the action is.” — Christopher Hauke Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that… — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through… — Larry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics - naturally, an American one - is the separation of personality from ideology. If you… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
“I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Someone who had authority, or should have had authority and did not exercise authority. I do not know. But someone sometime let… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of… — Tony Shafrazi 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
“But when you talk about Nabokov and Coover, you’re talking about real geniuses, the writers who weathered real shock and invented this… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Quinn froze. There was nothing he could do now that would not be a mistake. Whatever choice he made--and he had to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Postmodern people have been rejecting Christianity for years, thinking that it was indistinguishable from moralism.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain… — Veronica Hollinger Copy Share Image
“Reagan’s easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.” — Michael Rogin Copy Share Image
The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently… — Mark Earley Copy Share Image
“The overriding sense of Tokyo...is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way:… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did. — Irving Sandler Copy Share Image
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
“Reflected in “The Bean,” the city exists within the Rust Belt as a postmodern “funhouse” of the twentieth century.” — Martha Bayne Copy Share Image
We've become so postmodern as an audience and we're so familiar with the style of horror movies that they all kind of… — Ti West Copy Share Image
It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
I have a huge respect for the dedication that many people have, on the other side of the Atlantic, to photography. You… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“Lawrence continues to be central in our postmodern period because he gives us the theoretical tools to understand why, exactly, a culture… — Nidesh Lawtoo Copy Share Image
If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is… — George Will Copy Share Image