Modernism Quote by Jack Cashill Download Open image ““Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.”” — Jack Cashill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Like Pornography Modernism Pornography Pornography Postmodernism Postmodernism Postmodernism Hard
“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.” — Veronica Hollinger Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a foreign example, and worse, no matter what you say, despite the context, it will be considered a postmodern device. That's the danger of postmodernism: it poses itself as something that can't be trumped, something you can’t… — Brian Celio Copy Share
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“For postmoderns, no knowledge is fully reliable and no concepts are absolutely indispensable.” — Heath White Copy Share Image
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview. — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
“postmodernists are just as concerned about objective truth as anyone else. Dallas Willard comments, “I have noticed that the most emphatic of Postmodernists turn coldly modern when discussing their fringe benefits or other matters that make a great difference to their practical life.” 35 If we use the metaphor that a worldview is a mental map, postmodernists keep walking off… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it — Pat Sajak Copy Share Image
“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 to the aid of humanity and make everything all right in the end. Postmoderns believe that we make our own bed, historically speaking, and we have to lie in it; and that’s all there is to… — Heath White Copy Share
“the left had been finessing labels for years: racial preferences to affirmative action to diversity; abortion rights to pro-choice to reproductive rights; global warming… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allan Poe called it “the imp of the perverse,” that willful, self-destructive voice within that impels us to do things or say things… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“For Obama, ignorance was never an excuse. Ignorance was a strategy.” — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“If this new breed of activist urged Obama to hammer away at the Constitution, old-school civil libertarians lamented its demolition. The longtime Village Voice… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“He made so many promises,” said the deeply disappointed Obama acolyte Barbara Walters five years into the presidency. “We thought that he was going… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“To defend the indefensible, George Orwell once observed, political figures employ language that consists largely of “euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.” — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“Lest he provide a target for his critics, Obama avoided all variations of the word “mandate” in his 2009 speech. Under his plan, no… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“The problem was that by 2014 no one was quite sure what those challenges were. Indeed, the earth had not warmed in sixteen years,… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“In the month of his inauguration, 63 percent of African Americans held a favorable view of race relations in America. By July 2013, that… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“In the three years after Obamacare was signed into law in 2010, the costs did not go down $2,500 per family as promised. They… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“Obama has subjected America to what Marc Thiessen described in the Washington Post as “a fundamentally dishonest presidency.” — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.” — Veronica Hollinger Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
