Country Quote by Davis Schneiderman

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters…

— Robert Hughes

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

— Twyla Tharp

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function,…

— Gilbert Adair

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of…

— Jean Baudrillard

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go…We are living in the end of the sovereign states…In the great struggle to…

— H. G. Wells

The United States is undergoing a transformation in how it relates to the rest of the world. We are becoming a nation that has…

— Ronan Farrow

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

— Fred Tomaselli

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of so-called postmodernism…

— Tony Shafrazi

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

— Jean Baudrillard

It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country…

— Barack Obama

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik