I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“jSimplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” — J.F.Lyotard The POstmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Copy Share Image
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff.… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would… — Bell Hooks 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
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Pop culture didn’t actually need an Andy Warhol to make it postmodern. Rock ’n’ roll was never anything but a faked-up blues—something… — Hugo Wilcken Copy Share Image
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
“In other words, I mean the formal aspect of a work that has made it possible for critics of all affiliations (Marxist,… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“For me, the last few years of the postmodern era have seemed a bit like the way you feel when you're in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It seems that the Internet is setting the standard for almost everything. I can't imagine having something like punk rock happen where… — Memory Tapes 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
“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
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern… — Jon Foreman 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
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
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