Human life Quote by Heath White

“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It didn’t drop…

— Heath White

“Premoderns placed their trust in authority. Moderns lost their confidence in authority and placed it in human reason instead. Postmoderns kept the modern distrust…

— Heath White

“attitudes were increasingly rejected; and now, in the twenty-first century, much of the energy and creative thinking in our culture operates off postmodern assumptions.”

— Heath White

“postmoderns have lost faith in the idea of objective verification. Instead, they focus on the persuasive power of the stories we tell”

— Heath White

“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

“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for lack of…

— Heath White

“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again…

— Peter Watson

“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a…

— Robert Musil

Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term…

— Nicolas Bourriaud

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

— Will Self

A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense…

— George C. Wolfe

“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and…

— Frank Kermode