Authenticity Quote by Jean Baudrillard

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

— Jean Baudrillard

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

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

— David Roochnik

“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines,…

— Jean-François Lyotard

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

— Jonathan Lethem

“In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic,…

— Frederic Jameson

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

“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

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is…

— Catharine MacKinnon

Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange…

— Lyman Abbott