Postmodernism Quotes - Page 2

• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

  Elias Canetti

  Men, Lice, Add

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• By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

  Martin Filler

  Years, Design, Style

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• I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of so-called postmodernism is the acceptance that we cannot go by old models any longer. The old models were based upon a single narrative of development that happened along a singular path. In the 20th century, you have electricity, you have transportation by plane, you have the telephone and all the various media that developed, you have a multiplicity of events and voices and creativities that are happening all around the world-and that multiplicity escalated after the war.

  Tony Shafrazi

  Art, War, Creativity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Silly, Modernism

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

  Terry Eagleton

  Light, Doe, Have Faith

  Terry Eagleton (2008). “The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction”, p.16, OUP Oxford

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• The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

  Paul Johnson

  Powerful, Earth Day, Arrogance

  Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

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• Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Alzheimer's, Modernism, Alzheimer

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• Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Perception, Triumph, Negative

  Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”

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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

  Term, Rhetorical, Worldview

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of them - one of its distinguishing traits is the story's awareness of its own artifice, and how that awareness becomes part of the story. And if that's right, then I have no idea how I ever got lumped into postmodernism except that I believe, since I was first published, people just haven't quite known where else to put me.

  Steve Erickson

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Delight, Controversy, Theologian

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• The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sadness, Men, Sick

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.436, Courier Corporation

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• In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes not only a common thing to do, but possibly the central way of working in the era we call postmodernism.

  Irving Sandler

  Real, Copying, Way

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

  Tucker Max

  Academia, Needs, Plans

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

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Impact, Ifs

  Source: nefac.net

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• Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Real, Sides

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• 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.

  Bell Hooks

  World, Shapes, Influence

  Source: nefac.net

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• Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Photography, Powerful, Believe

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• It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how the world anyway is. It is bad faith or 'bullshit', respond 'absolutists', to suppose - as the rhetoric of postmodernism implies - that we could seriously live and act with the thought that truth and value are simply our own projections. An attractive feature of 'ineffabilism', as I see it, is that it evades these accusations.

  David E. Cooper

  Bullshit, World, Absolutism

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and politically. Irony is a defensive position, against reality. It always knows what to think about reality. The idea of commitment and engagement is central to me, which is not ironic.

  Simon Critchley

  Commitment, Reality, Thinking

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• what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

  Jonathan Lethem

  Exactly Is, Anxiety, Modernism

  Jonathan Lethem (2012). “The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, etc.”, p.98, Random House

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• I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.

  Grant Morrison

  Mean, Want, Might

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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

  Robert Coover

  Say Anything, Generations, Way

  Interview with Aaron Shulman, believermag.com. July 1, 2015.

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Latin, Ideas

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• In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

  Aldous Huxley

  Illustration, Events, Religion And Politics

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