Growth Quote by Anthony B. Robinson

“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and class make…

— David K. Naugle

“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines,…

— Jean-François Lyotard

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment. It’s not…

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

“For all the successes of Western civilization, the world paid a dear price in terms of the most crucial component of existence - the…

— Eben Alexander

“Ours has been an expansionist society, but that narrative must change as we run out of places to expand into. But our culture is…

— James Rozoff

“It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power”

— Neil Postman

“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being continually reduced to mere message.”

— Sarah Arthur

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

— Jean Baudrillard

“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress…

— Graham Swift

“In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic,…

— Frederic Jameson

“Postmodernism involves the loss of any hope that some larger-than-human force—be it God or History or Progress or Science or Reason—is going to come…

— Heath White