Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate bondage, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
“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
“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
“Postmodernism, the school of "thought" that proclaimed "There are no truths, only interpretations" has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
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
“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Or, to put it another way, presuppositional apologetics--such as that developed by Francis Schaeffer, but also by Cornelius Van Til and, to… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased… — Gilbert Adair 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
“Whatever the issue, there is always something else to be said, another voice to be heard.” — Michael Billig Copy Share Image
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. — Stanley Hauerwas 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
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens 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
In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism's specifically academic appeal comes from its being another in the sequence of all-purpose "unmasking" strategies that offer a way to criticize… — Thomas Nagel 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
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
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
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
“In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not… — Alan Sokal 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
