“jSimplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” — J.F.Lyotard The POstmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Copy Share Image
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“Poezia s-a sinucis avînd grijă să-și facă un nod foarte estetic la ștreang.” — Mircea Cărtărescu Copy Share Image
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“This is a bright place, filled with frightened people, and fast hard things that hurt and wound. No matter. I swore I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
“shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz,… — David Foster Wallace 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
“Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, of course, the dead end from which hauntology starts - but one of its role is to denaturalise what postmodernism… — Mark Fisher 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
“The popular concept–that we should each determine our own morality–is based on the belief that the spiritual realm is nothing at all… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
“All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“The world, every day, is New. Only for those born in, say, 1870 or so, can there be a meaningful use of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is. On the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The assertion that only sex is power and the arrogation of creativity to the masculine sex and the rendering of all creativity… — Somer Brodribb Copy Share Image
“The bricoleur , says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“So that to give a commentary on the text, such as we are attempting here, is to reinforce the illusion that a… — James N. Powell Copy Share Image
“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses,… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some… — James N. Powell Copy Share Image
Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism...… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“To him, they looked like shadows that his wife had left behind. Size 7 shadows of his wife hung there in long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We have seen in this book numerous ambiguous texts that can be interpreted in two different ways: as an assertion that is… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The place where french-postmodernism has been really harmful is the Third World. Because Third World intellectuals are badly needed in popular movements,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
