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Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the…
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It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that…
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For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military…
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It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
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Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology…
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If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in…
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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to…
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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its…
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In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism -…
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything…
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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations…
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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television,…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
— David Foster Wallace
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
— Umberto Eco
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It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that…
— Fredric Jameson
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
— Vaclav Havel
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the…
— Alicia Ostriker
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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
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The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.
— Donna J. Haraway
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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their…
— David Foster Wallace
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Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
— Joel Hodgson
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The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern…
— Jon Foreman
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Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people…
— Eric Van Lustbader
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Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading…
— Arthur Kroker
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