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  • a  of or relating to postmodernism
    postmodernist architecture

  • Reaching back to early Marxism and forward to postmodernist literary theory (to say nothing of the practice of body piercing), Hardt and Negri finesse the argument by showing that .
  • This movie is the writer-director's most airless exploration of this postmodernist's Yoknapatawpha County, an antimovie that rejects even the most minimal obligations to .
  • Figurative artists have always quoted from the past, but Currin, like a good postmodernist, puts his quotes in big quotation marks.
News & Articles

  • Positivity RatioCriticized In New Sokal Affair
    British psychologist Nick Brown and two co-authors have just published an astonishing demolition of a top-ranked paper in the field of positive psychology: The Complex Dynamics of Wishful Thinking One of the authors of the critique is Alan Sokal, the physicist who, in 1996, famously wrote a parody of then-fashionable postmodernist theorizing and had it published as a serious paper in a sociology ...
    July 17, 2013 - Discover
Quotes

  • Gilberto Gil in Miami Herald
    As Gil said in a presentation at the South By Southwest conference here, it was "the last modernist movement and the first postmodernist one."
  • Peter Tork in Los Angeles Times
    The TV show had this huge ad campaign, and everybody went for all the hype,says Tork. "The 'Head' campaign was designed to be Postmodernist, and the commercials were off-putting. The hip thought it was going to be another bubble-gum movie,...
  • Richard John Neuhaus in Bwog (blog)
    If the word had not been so terribly abused,Neuhaus said, "I would call myself a postmodernist. I would say at its heart it is an understanding of the ways in which human life is narrative and is narratible and our understandings of...

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