Postmodern Quotes

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Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.

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

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

Don't call me a Postmodern!

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

The larger the price tag, the more you have to adopt what I call the postmodern management approach. What I mean by that is that you have to use everything when you make a decision.

The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing left but mediated images of its substance.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers to disregard the materiality of power relations.

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.