Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style. — Ada Louise Huxtable 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
“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
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
“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
“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
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. — Andrew Eldritch 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
“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
Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and… — Simon Critchley 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
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable? — Catharine MacKinnon 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
“What was true of an ancient community of Christian believers struggling with a powerful and appealing philosophy is also true for Christians… — Brian J. Walsh 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
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
Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with… — Terry Eagleton 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
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith — Terry Eagleton 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
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
