Postmodernism Quotes

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

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.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

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

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

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.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

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

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

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

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

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.

Saying, “I don’t agree with you, ” or going so far as to say, “I think your belief structure is childish, ” does not amount to persecution. Insensitivity is not the same as harassment or oppression.

[Concerning Lyotard's ideology:]... Theory ought to be recognized as part of the problem, not as a potential solution.

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.

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

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.

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.

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...

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.

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.

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

You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!