Postmodernism famous quotes

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Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.
-- Arnold Aronson

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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
-- Catharine MacKinnon

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what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
-- Jonathan Lethem

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

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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
-- Walter Darby Bannard

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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
-- Walter Darby Bannard

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

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The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.
Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.
I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer.
I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.