Postmodern Quotes

39 quotes by 37 authors

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about… — David Foster Wallace
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must… — Umberto Eco
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how… — Fredric Jameson
We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain. — Vaclav Havel
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of… — Alicia Ostriker
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code. — Donna J. Haraway
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. — David Foster Wallace
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences. — Joel Hodgson
The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which… — Jon Foreman
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a… — Eric Van Lustbader
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of… — Arthur Kroker
Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion… — Don Cupitt
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees… — Stephen F. Hayes
"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West,… — Ken Wilber
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by… — Kathy Acker
Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy. — Bo Burnham
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a… — Aleksandar Hemon
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's… — Dave Eggers

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