Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.” — Rao Umar Javed 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
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!” — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“Whatever the issue, there is always something else to be said, another voice to be heard.” — Michael Billig Copy Share Image
“here is the nub of the issue between Christianity and postmodernism: what is freedom?” — Heath White Copy Share Image
“It is when death is rendered graphically, is televised so to speak, that you sense an eerie separation between your condition and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many… — Brad Holland 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
“Obi-Wan Kenobi once said ‘your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them.’ It seems to be getting harder. Distinguishing reality from the… — Huey Freeman Copy Share Image
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
I always am in a role, lovely for you, for them even for myself. Yeah... Even when Im alone, I am still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“In the transformed world political context of today, it is more essential than ever that the critique of democracy in the name… — Şeyla Benhabib Copy Share Image
To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
“There’s a rumor it seems involving the finance minister. He’s supposed to resign any time now,” she said. “Some kind of scandal… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Let us, thusly, embrace the assumption that to each advocate of a respective paradigm within his respective bubble, the phenomenological gaps between… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview. — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes… — Irving Sandler Copy Share Image
“So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text; he is in no way supplied with a being which precedes or… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
“Change. Change. Change. Change … change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy,… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
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