I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too. — Bill Irwin Copy Share Image
“Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.” — Saira Viola Copy Share Image
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“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… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial of human nature. One… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Peter Drucker suggested the transformation into a post-modern world happened between 1937 and 1957 (when he was writing). He described an as… — Wikipedia 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
“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
“You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“I argue that three key doctrines of postmodernist thought have conspired to discredit the classical concept of ideology. The first of these… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to… — Luca Guadagnino 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
“Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere –… — Douglas Murray 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
