Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to… — Walter Darby Bannard 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
“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
“[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
“She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.” — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality. -TS Elliot, quoted by Groothuis” — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth. Art lives on but wealth diminishes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
“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
“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
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
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as… — Jonathan Raban 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
“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
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“Now, in the academy, you cannot just say anything about male theory. You have to proceed with an immanent critique, that is… — Somer Brodribb 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
“The fact is: our faith is more rational than the most elaborate paradigm of the atheistic foundationalist, more romantic than the wildest… — Reggie M. Kidd 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
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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