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Postmodern Quotes

Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a foreign example, and worse, no matter what you say, despite the context, it will be considered a postmodern device. That's the danger of postmodernism: it poses itself as something that can't be trumped, something you can’t escape. It continually mocks your efforts for the sake of its name. I know even this will be seen as another postmodern bullet, and no matter... Brian Celio
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans... David Foster Wallace
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals. Jean Baudrillard
David Guterson quote: "Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs. David Guterson
Andrew Eldritch quote: "Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of..."
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. Andrew Eldritch
Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. Elizabeth Wilson
Robert Hewison quote: "Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. Robert Hewison
Scott Turow quote: "Postmodernism cost literature its audience."
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. Scott Turow
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. Larry Wall
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. Catharine MacKinnon
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. John Berger
Terry Eagleton quote: "Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense..."
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. Terry Eagleton
Larry Wall quote: "We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we..."
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore. Larry Wall
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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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. Kathy Acker

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