The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom…

Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term…

— Nicolas Bourriaud

“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate…

— John Leonard

“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 to come…

— Heath White

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the…

— Miguel Syjuco

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the…

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and class make…

— David K. Naugle

Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange…

— Lyman Abbott

“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies the leap…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated…

— Martin Filler

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

— Jonathan Lethem

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik

“May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?”

— Jonathan Lethem

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence,…

— Umberto Eco

“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a…

— Brian Celio

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

— Robert Coover