How To Use Postmodern In A Sentence
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Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion.
Postmodernism
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In what follows I shall claim that postmodern cultural forms do indeed signify, only that they signify differently.
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If the latter endeavor has, since postmodernism, seemed a kind of hubristic folly, "The
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There have been many different views towards postmodern social psychology since it was advanced by K · J · Gergen.
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The postmodern perspective, on the other hand, views the movement of historical time to be radically contingent and unpredictable.
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There's some mild postmodern fun to be had identifying these sources, but that's hardly the point.
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They build on and support changes that have been developing in critical theory during the postmodern era.
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Often post-Soviet Russian literature is called postmodernist when what is really meant is that it is post-Soviet.
A Progressive on the Prairie
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Modernism and postmodernism have made us more aware of the complexities of the art form.
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A frequent accusation levelled against the nouveau roman and, indeed, both modernism and postmodernism is their apolitical nature.
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This conceptualization resonates with such postpositive movements in psychology as social constructionism, postmodern thought, and discursive psychology.
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However, postmodernism has figured more prominently in internal critiques of feminist theories.
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Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
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Synths, banjo, trumpet, and anything else found around the studio gets thrown in, creating the feeling of some sort of strange, postmodern hootenanny.
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Call us a bunch of self-referential, mocking, postmodern deconstructionist ironicists, if you will.
Times, Sunday Times
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For Anderson, postmodern thought has a structural relation to French Marxist politics.
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They inevitably exert a powerful influence over the transitional realm used by people, especially women, in postmodern mass culture.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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The award-winning British play promises a salacious good time with its decidedly postmodern take on gender and sexual power relationships in the middle ages.
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Postmodernism and social constructionism remind us to be suspect of any constructs that seek to establish themselves as decontextualized truths.
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DreamWorks, in particular, has made the kind of allusive, parodic cultural self-consciousness that used to be called postmodernism safe for the whole family.
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Especially in the age of postmodernism or the New Age, many people are eager to enjoy their present moments and realize their own individual dreams.
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The notion that theories take precedence over facts is now a truism of a postmodern, post-fact, true-spin/values world.
Are We Finally Waking Up...or Merely Trading One Set of Illusions for Another?
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We are both modern and postmodern and yet not defined by either.
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This is the age of post-postmodernism -- an age of both inoperative language and linguistic reflexivity, of "meaning" as both immaterial material and material immateriality -- and Douglas Kearney pushes hard against all of this by rendering language as active, operative, and indeed a locus for Spectacle.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
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In a crazy way, a good way of getting to grips with postmodernism / structuralism might be to dive into some examples in the Arts.
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A frequent accusation levelled against the nouveau roman and, indeed, both modernism and postmodernism is their apolitical nature.
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Mitchell had through the dinosaur connected the world of the prehistoric to that of the posthistoric or postmodern.
The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur
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The postmodern moment in Hong Kong art took the form of a rejection of all master narratives, whether of Chineseness or of Western-centered conceptions of modernity or contemporaneity.
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What we have in Barack Obama is the perfect blending of postmodern Marxism with therapeutic psychobabble into a royal narcissistic mishmosh.
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Thomson argues there is now evidence of a departure from and revision of the medicalized ableist legacy to be found in exemplary postmodern black women's writing.
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Various departments inhabit a ramshackle collection of buildings up and down Holloway Road, ranging through arts and crafts, neo-Georgian, brutalism and postmodernist junk.
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As a result, the postmodern leftist lives in a kind of hermetically sealed ignorance that they call "education" or "sophistication.
One Cosmos
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And already this belief helps nourish a central strand of the postmodern condition: a powerful inability to take things seriously.
Christianity Today
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There was consensus on the roles that social constructionism, narrative, and hermeneutics play in postmodern thought and their application to therapy.
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The ill-omened page of postmodern historicism has been definitively turned.
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The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
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Rabbis can connect with their postmodern congregants by demonstrating that the grand narrative of God, Torah, and Israel is not a hermetically sealed book.
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This is a leading distinction between modernism and postmodernism, the so-called decentering of the self.
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For almost half a century, Barth has continued to break new ground, and his work epitomizes the stylistic hallmarks of postmodernism.
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A frequent accusation levelled against the nouveau roman and, indeed, both modernism and postmodernism is their apolitical nature.
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Richard Prince has long reveled in his pose as a postmodern pilferer of other people's images—in being what's known as an "appropriation artist.
When Appropriation Masquerades as Reconceptualized Art
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It is an excellent academic study of cultural criticism, especially postmodernism.
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The corrosiveness of commodity fetishism, the breakout of collective life, and the loss of the cultural critic and spiritual precursor, all of these become new crisis of postmodernism.
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Postmodernism's crisis is the crisis of confidence in the function of art and culture at the end of the twentieth century.
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If, however, you like your comedy no more postmodern than a saucy seaside postcard, read on.
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Bataille (anthropologist, philosopher and pornographer, a doyen of recent postmodern aestheticism and anti-rationalism) was perhaps the most powerful articulator of Kojève's pessimism in the face of the ‘death of man’.
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Reagan operationalized the virtual in postmodern politics.
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The God-centered religion of most synagogues and churches does not inspire the postmodern seeker; she wants to turn inward.
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Even more than Blakey, who tended to stick with the Messengers' hard-bop format, Roach was a restless experimenter who was open to many forms of postmodern experimentation, including team-ups with such free-jazz avatars as Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor.
The Jazz Scene: Rhythm Kings and the Chairman of the Board
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If the site becomes a harbor for the worst excesses of postmodernism of a kind that have now been proposed, the city's skyline may become little more than an eyesore and a joke.
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In the modern / postmodern era, the perduring problem is relativism.
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Arrayed against them are postmodernists and leftists as well as populist nationalists who have revived Maoist ideas about people power.
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They whom I live with are inclined towards postmodernism.
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Dumbed-down Heidegger and a seeming praise of kinkiness became the Bible of the sixties and early postmodernism.
May 30th, 2009
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Postmodernism has not eliminated the need for grand narratives, but it has infinitely complicated their writing by abrading the link between human experience and what used to be called ‘political economy’.
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We're already losing the word, and I doubt my children will use it any more than I use archaisms from Postmodern English.
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Yet mechanism and postmodernism are linked by a common distrust of human subjectivity.
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I suppose paintings of TV characters might be an example of ultimate postmodernism - producing art by painting from a television screen.
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Theoretical science has been slowly driven from the universities by the new crusaders of Postmodernism.
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But as cheery, tune-filled postmodern parodies of cheesy slasher movies go, it's not bad.
Times, Sunday Times
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There has been an increasingly unproductive debate on the difference between modernism and postmodernism.
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Munck attacks the critics of postmodernism by calling them sociological reductionists.
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And though Catholic modernism arose in response to the Enlightenment, it may prove to be even more appropriate for postmodern believers.
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My conception of postmodernist de-differentiation via an aesthetics of desire was also in large part dependent on Lyotard's work.
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Postmodern novels defamiliarize this ideology by highlighting their own status as textual constructs, thereby disallowing readers to interpret their fictive worlds as transparent or neutral reflections of reality.
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Much metaphysical language of the Middle Ages is incomprehensible to modern or postmodern minds.
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In his review of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, Hari Kunzru maintains that what separates this novel from the postmodern novels Lethem clearly admires is that "it’s too good-humored to attain real satiric bite and is often content to drop a name instead of wrestling with the slippery ideas that might make Lethem’s heroes worthy of a true fan’s regard.
The Reading Experience
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Postmodernists, on the other hand, are more multivocal in their viewpoint, holding that the ownership of concepts and words is less important than their relevance to culture-making; in art, for example, postmodernists will "appropriate" from anywhere and everywhere, and by redefining the context of the works or snippets, create something new (Andy Warhol's soup cans, above: using "fine art" painting methods to appropriate canned soup).
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This is the sort of "prankishness" one imagines Kazin to have been complaining about and that no longer ” after fifty years of postmodern experimentation (and five Zuckerman books by Philip Roth) ” sticks in our craw.
Justice to J.D. Salinger
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All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
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What I think we have here, at the heart of slipstream, is a folding through of the strange and the mundane, a radical interpenetration (far more radical than that of intrusion fantasy), one that leads to the deep instability and uncertainty of an infused realm, offered as an estranged postmodern view of the world -- infusion as confusion.
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In addition, in its celebration of irreducible difference, postmodernism has been castigated for replicating the very categories of racist ideological thought that it is intended to supersede.
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He launches a vicious attack in several parts of this book on postmodern literary criticism and feminist theory.
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One final relevant feature of postmodernity is its mixture of popular and high culture.
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The resulting piano duos are effective, referencing their sources but with a new, complex postmodern voice that moves in untraditional harmonies and rhythms.
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In spite of postmodernism's loosening of the modernist canon, the stigma against classicism remains robust.
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Critics have him pigeonholed as ‘Flash Gordon,’ that postmodern enfant terrible who rocketed to stardom on the supercharged fireworks of the State of Illinois Building in 1985.
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Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous caricature in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
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To learn about postmodernism is to immerse oneself in a new paradigm, one that emphasizes pluralism and local narratives, skepticism and re-examination, deconstructionism and hermeneutics.
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But this is based on the mistaken idea that modernism and postmodernism are sequential stages in history.
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It shared the distaste of postmodernism for totalizing theory and it embraced the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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The third is the emergence of new attitudes, usually described as postmodernist, which challenge the Church's traditional ascription of authority to the Bible.
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If the Modern Era was a rage for order, regulation, stability, singularity, and fixity, the Postmodern Era is a rage for chaos, uncertainty, otherness, openness, multiplicity, and change.
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Otherwise, they were beautifully wrought postmodern constructions containing multiple ingredients to be blended and worked into suitable mouthfuls.
Times, Sunday Times
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Derrida became a flashpoint for controversies over the allegedly baleful influence of postmodernism and post-structuralism on the Humanities.
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Just wondering, though - you gave a bunch of texts using 'pataphysics' in some way, and then anticipated what I was thinking with the comment on pataphysics vs. postmodernism - what would you consider an explicitly postmodern text using pataphysics, as opposed to a modernist like Davenport?
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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I still owe him pint-long explanations of existentialism and postmodernism, you know.
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Now and then a few people, witting or unwitting postmodernists, who think that social constructs trump the laws of physics, are mowed down by logging trucks.
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And this is the postmodernist bit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, this leads me to a major criticism of Foucault's postmodernism when applied to the media.
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The cognitive revolution is a postmodern one and it results in the establishment of social constructionism.
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Yet the museum is quite indulgent towards postmodernist artefacts, displaying them prominently and trumpeting their subversive qualities.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Jean-Francois Lyotard, for one, prefers to see the postmodern as a continuing possibility arising out of the modern.
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Postmodern comedy has taken the anarchic comedy implicit in Joyce and made it explicit.
Comedy in Literature
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Making sense of his status as a postmodern social icon is as difficult as understanding his posthumous deification by millions of fans.
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You're kind of right, because the kind of postmodernism you describe - ‘the philosophy that claims there is no transcendent truth’ - was never really alive.
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Could this be postmodern irony 's first trip to the darts?
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps the strangest element of Auster’s reputation as an American postmodernist is that his language never registers this kind of absence at the level of the sentence.
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Moreover, the playing field has been changed in the radical postmodern hermeneutic by the denial of an objective text, and by deconstruction and the hermeneutics of suspicion.
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However, if modern, postmodern, and premodern forms of war overlap with each other, each mode has distinctive features.
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It's a joy to find this young author coming into his own, and bringing the craft of science fiction out of the backwaters where it's been caught lately between the regressive drag of publishers marketing to a "safe" readership and the bewildering promises of change and growth offered by postmodernism in all its forms and formlessness.
Embassytown by China Miéville – review
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Callinicos drives a coach and horses through postmodernism; well and good.
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In that respect, David is being a typical postmodern Republican: shameless, Bismarckian, and contemptuous of communitarians.
Nigel Hamilton: David Brooks: Soft in the Head
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Because we are the heirs of modernism and postmodernism.
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Yet theories that endorse the implosion and blurring of the traditionally drawn boundaries between conventionally accepted dualisms are not necessarily postmodern.
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The author opens her new introduction to this edition with an intriguing question: ‘What does it mean to be an anchoress in postmodernity?’
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I will reveal myself as being closer to modernism than to postmodernism by asserting that I believe there are some things that are true.
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Jean-Francois Lyotard famously defined postmodernism in terms of the sublime and posited it as presenting what is unpresentable, excessive, regardless of order and perfection.
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The anti-bourgeois, anti-war and anarchistic Dada movement in the early 1900's is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.
Carmen Zella: Soundcrash : The Art Movement of Hip Hop
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T. R. Johnson, in ‘Writing as Healing and the Rhetorical Tradition,’ offers a provocative, carefully crafted rereading of connections between pre-classical, expressivist, and postmodern conceptions of self and truth.
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postmodernist architecture
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Change produces anxiety - especially a postmodern change in which all semblances of certainty have been removed.
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A postmodern playfulness and irony are employed to challenge a Party icon, by co-opting fragments of an old socialist anthem as the basis of a rock song.
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The business writer writes that we do a dis-service when we talk of managing change or talk of transitioning from modern to postmodern.
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I didn't even know you could do that, but this is how postmodernist politics works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Self-referential and postmodern, or just weird?
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The postmodern feeling for style harmonises with the pictures, which would be classified as pop-art, and the furniture of the fifties and sixties.
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His narrative of addiction doubles as a meta-critique on the compulsive desire to reproduce text and image that characterizes postmodern textualities as well as the apparatuses that produce them.
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Derrida's theory of supplementarity is useful in understanding the extent to which ethnic art explodes postmodern theory in unexpected and unexplored new directions.
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Perhaps the upwardly mobile middle classes in 1990s Detroit are now surrounding themselves with postmodern houses and artefacts!
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View Answers cute too talkative suberic arrogant postmodern kinda subversive kinda hegemonic obsessed with Buffy supposed to be working aggravating in an argument kittens (1) or cheese (10)?
March 4th, 2003
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Oh but, the author suggested, we're all postmodernist now, aren't we?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Given these changes, it would seem logical that the survey would become an obsolete, archaic technology in a postmodern world.
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Both postmodern hermeneutics and classical Jewish belief embody utmost significance in text and speech.
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They have stumbled through the postmodern junkyard, loaded together all of the synthetic throbs, hums, and moans they could find and patchworked them into one gorgeous mess.
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One day, as she roams deep in the forest, ill with allergies and the flu, her sweat-shirt hood pulled tightly around her like a postmodern wimple, Ann experiences an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
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In contrast to many postmodernists, who engage in easy forms of parody when addressing the high-flown art of the past, Schütte has actually had the courage to work from inside the tradition - and risk the comparisons.
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This essay is indebted to the postmodern thinkers who have developed these theories.
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They went on to become some of the most famous names in postmodern art.
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She is emphatically not a modernist or postmodernist author.
Times, Sunday Times
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While visual art lumped under the rubric of ‘postmodernism’ typically accessed a shared matrix of cultural tropes and formal devices, it often differed radically in intent from work to work.
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Having explored the context of Christian ethics in part two by examining the impact of modernism and postmodernism upon ethics, he devotes part three to the task of making ethical decisions.
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Moreover, factions within an organization may operate from a postmodern, modern, or even premodern orientation.
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Like many a postmodernist, he suspects that conviction itself is potentially authoritarian, his own convictions naturally excepted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixAs we wrote behind in July, this is "retro cocktail hyper-focused upon a futuristic reimagination of postmodernism as good as neoclassicism as proletarian touchstones ... that we can dance to.
The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery
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Most of us in the pluralist postmodern era can see that both are wonderful in different ways.
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His followers see in him a populist hero, but more than anything else he resembles a postmodern version of William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic firebrand whose demagoguery derailed the People's Party in 1896.
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The theory of "textual subjectivity" advocated by Jacques Derrida and others shows clearly the spirit of the aesthetic of postmodernism.
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I only make the kind of work I make because of the discourse of postmodernism and the time that I'm working in.
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The argument that the black novel anticipates postmodernism can also take a formalist turn.
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But whimsy is not exactly a postmodern mode, and in Chronic City it betrays a certain aesthetic timidity.
The Reading Experience
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Postmodern designs have hints of pilasters, friezes and capitals, but only in lego-like abbreviation.
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Reader-directed irony, that by now classical stylistic device of postmodern literature, pervades the ancient play.
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Postmodernists claim that science, no less than religion and literature and philosophy, is infiltrated with culture.
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Bodies of critical theory from postmodernism to post-colonialism are enriching our understanding of children and childhood.
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There, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator of Light and Space art, and Helene Winer, later the director of Artists Space and Metro Pictures in New York, curated landmark exhibitions by young local artists who bridged the gap between Conceptual art and postminimalism, and presaged the development of postmodernism in the later 1970s.
Bill Bush: Set Your Clocks To Pacific Standard Time: This Artweek.LA (August 22-September 4, 2011)
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A certain part of postmodernism has involved an attempt to get outside of history.
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But if we subtract the postmodern from the modern in the United States, a large chunk of the latter remains.
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However, his insights demand a stronger rootedness in postmodern theories of identity and self-reflexive fiction.
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Postmodernists prefer local traditions which are not entirely led by rational and instrumental criteria, but make room for the sacred and even the irrational.
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The postmodern movement would pick up that ideal by inverting traditional concepts of high and low art to see what new life they could squeeze out of these tired, old ideas - like soup cans!
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What with the likes of Episodes and Louie now ploughing the postmodern furrow, meta-TV seems to have become a common-or-garden comedy genre like satire, surrealism and topical quiz shows.
Curb your Enthusiasm – season eight, episode one
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Without even trying, American TV watchers have developed an amazingly sophisticated view of postmodernism, even if they would never use the word postmodern in any conversation or even be able to define it.14 However, this was still a new idea in 1994.
Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television
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According to Frederic Jameson , modernism and postmodernism are cultural formations which accompany particular stages of capitalism.
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The kinds of literary work that have been described as postmodernist include the Theatre of the Absurd and some experimental poetry.
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We are living through the juncture of eras, modern to postmodern, which unsettles our certainties and at the same time heightens our longing for certainty.
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This voice has been facilitated recently by postmodern movement in literary theory and practice.
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But by the end of the 1970s postmodernism had degenerated from a startling assault on traditional narrative into a style as predictable as any other; there are, it seems, only so many ways to avoid telling a straightforward story.
A Bag of Tired Tricks
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In terms of narratology, the author is almost a pioneer of postmodernism in his use of cyclical narrative.
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But wherein lies the essential problem of postmodern philosophy?
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The great postmodern shopping malls, marble corporate palaces, and gleaming new hotels, built in the late 1980s and early 1990s when there seemed to be no end to the property boom, rose imperviously above the floods.
Thailand: All the King's Men
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Fredric Jameson's 1981 lecture, ‘Postmodernism and Consumer Society,’ sheds some light on Wideman's portrayal of ghetto experience as delusive.
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It is a send-up - nationalism as a postmodern jape.
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Because postmodernism is associated with a suspicion of meta-narratives, intellectual tendencies such as post-structuralism, relativism and pragmatism have been labeled postmodernist.
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At the same time, however, the fractured identity described as "neurosis" in the 1940s also anticipates the fragmentation, multiplicities, and identity politics of postmodernism.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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Or is virtualism an extension of modernism and postmodernism?
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There is the same postmodern intertextuality; the same philosophical tendency; the same fondness for cryptic sentences.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are others however who may well have "commited" Mundane SF but who have also produced great works far from its shores: Michael Swanwick's industrial fantasy masterpiece The Iron Dragon's Daughter; Bruce Sterling's postmodern slipstream novel Zeitgeist; Philip Dick's gnostic novels such as VALIS that certainly don't engage with the world through science; Aldiss and Ballard's many stories from the New Wave period that explicitly reject the precursor to Mundane SF; Ryman's own work of magical realism, Was.
Rules And Mundanity
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This tides once contribute to postmodernist controversy on philosophy, aesthesis, sociology, literature and pedagogy.
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He thought postmodernism wasn't a real epoch, just the last gasp of modernism before the next phase started.
THE SAVING GRACES
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This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
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Postmodern reinvention, including Rambo as Egypt's Pharaoh, could be seen as irreverent, even sacrilegious.
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No consternation which many OGXers have found it more copacetic to become conservatives (remember a Reagan Youth?); or instead to embrace what Baudrillard (a French Postmodern) would call a "soft ideologies" of ecologism as well as antiracism, instead of, say, social justice.
Archive 2009-11-01
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As much as fascism, Nietzsche foreshadowed modernism, existentialism and postmodernism.
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It is also historical materialism, which far predated postmodernism in understanding that human affairs were matters of cutting, pasting, and recombining.
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In the 1960s Slavenska opened a studio in New York that attracted many modern and postmodern dancers.
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I listened recently to a cultural studies academic complain that postmodern theory is not taught to first-year creative writing students.
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These participants resorted to embracing some of the postmodern ideas but opted to maintain their religious or spiritual beliefs.
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The Fiat Punto ads that first featured the phrase toyed with preconceptions about the different driving habits and interests of males and females, but surely no one outside a media studies course would argue that the marketing line was intended as a postmodern critique of consumer sexism.
On the road: Fiat Punto Evo Multiair GP 1.4
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This would be a purely social postmodernity which derives from the recognition that even the satires and games of modernism and modernity posit a deeper reality which we can no longer believe in.
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The king of kitsch, he wilfully focuses on the tackiest, most trivial productions of postmodern society.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dirty-minded denizens of "Avenue Q" have plopped their smutty little selves down in the Lansburgh Theatre for the next few weeks, bringing into that Shakespeare Theatre Company space their eternally delectable grab bag of postmodern wisecracks.
'Avenue Q' at the Lansburgh Theatre: Smutty puppets in a Shakespeare temple?
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He also displays a postmodern consciousness ahead of the times.
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This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
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I have to assume that in Ulin's reference to "playing games" he is taking a swipe at postmodernism, using the same stale cliche those critics who want to valorize the "engagement" of writers like Mailer and Johnson in contrast to the aesthetic affectations of formalists and metafictionists always seem to use.
Saying Something
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According to Charles Jencks, the man who applied the term "postmodernism" or Post-Modernism, as he likes to write it to architecture, it never went away, and he has published a book, The Story of Post-Modernism, to prove it.
PoMo power: the return of postmodernism
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In all the areas we have looked at, there are very vigorous alternative intellectual traditions outside those promoted by postmodernists.
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Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the referential jokiness of postmodernism.
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Across the many branches of science, some theories are so well researched and documented that only fundamentalist chuckleheads, and tenure-bloated, postmodernist, gasbags fuss over them.
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The postmodern emphasis on sublimity has tended to stress the sublime as an unreachable beyond, contemplation of which induces a pathos of finitude in any human subject.
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Postmodernism's lack of explicit political content, however, remains for me problematic, as does its decentering of the subject and its approach to political action.
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Motion is unpresentable as such but leaves a conceptual trace, not unlike Lyotard's description of the postmodern: ‘the postmodern would be that which, in the modern, puts forward the unpresentable in presentation itself.’
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The film deals with a prototypically modern drama at a postmodern moment.
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Now postmodern irony runs riot in the hedgerows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her intellectually provocative essay on the songs is touched by fashionable postmodernist ideas.
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In it, I study and analyze postmodern science fiction films and novels in an attempt to develop a “postcapitalist” theory of selfhood, technology, subjectivity and the body.
Nonfiction
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Whether that crowd consists of Elizabethan tradesmen or Harvard postmodernists, Shakespeare entertains his audiences while challenging them to think.
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Postmodernism could be regarded as diminishing the collective voice and experience of women, therefore encouraging disconnection.
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One needs to operate within multiple frames of reference, ranging from the relatively ‘hard’ science of neurobiology to postmodern narrative work and social constructionism.
