That technique, we shouldn't forget, was inherited by postmodernism from the modernists whoo came before them. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk] Reference
The commingling of technology and nostalgia-what is sometimes called postmodernism-has been especially powerful in politics. From Wordnik.com. [On The Road Again] Reference
Why do Americans fight to preserve our freedoms when, in postmodernism, our greatest goal should only be to do what feels right to us at the time?. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: Phantom by Terry Goodkind – Grasping for the Wind] Reference
When used in the usual polemical fashion, the word postmodernism doesn't have much meaning over and beyond what could be conveyed by calling somebody Mr. Poopy Pants. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
November 21, 2005 12: 44 PM bibliobibuli said ... swifty - that's what postmodernism is all about, i guess. yes, a very clever book and again one that plays with the reader. From Wordnik.com. [Fowles Play] Reference
In many instances this is even more affectively overdetermined than "postmodernism" - think of the emotional valence of a term like. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
This arena is called postmodernism, claming that different groups have different beliefs about belief itself. From Wordnik.com. [nisayon Diary Entry] Reference
Well, I not only don’t believe in postmodernism, but one of the reasons I don’t is because I know about type. From Wordnik.com. [For font bores strictly « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
The outcome has been the ascendancy of what is called postmodernism and its systematic repudiation of objective knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
They do call attention to the text's status as text, but I don't think this kind of accidental postmodernism is what Nowlan (or the ULA) really has in mind.). From Wordnik.com. [Narrative Strategies] Reference
DreamWorks, in particular, has made the kind of allusive, parodic cultural self-consciousness that used to be called postmodernism safe for the whole family. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
As one of my professors — an expert in postmodernism once described — it’s kind of like one of those newspaper photos that when viewed at too close a range goes all to dots. From Wordnik.com. [The Boomer Blog: July 2007 Archives] Reference
He managed to use the word "postmodernism" in a sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday, November 30, 2006] Reference
There really isn't any "postmodernism," only postmodernisms. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Theology II: What do you want to read?] Reference
~ Matthew Dallman is intent on Battling "postmodernism" down -- I'm with him on this one. From Wordnik.com. [Speedlinking 4/10/07] Reference
In recent years, there has been an attempt to exorcise her and there has been much talk of "postmodernism". From Wordnik.com. [Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture] Reference
I was going to read the "postmodernism" article in order to rebut it in detail, but it just isn't worth it. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter] Reference
I tend to use "postmodernism" and "poststructuralism" interchangeably, but the terms are slightly different. From Wordnik.com. [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference
He calls her, quote, the midwife of postmodernism. From Wordnik.com. [Music Patron Betty Freeman Dies] Reference
And given the watery postmodernism of the age, why not?. From Wordnik.com. [Torricelli's Larger Point] Reference
Aha! It's good ole postmodernism to the rescue once again. From Wordnik.com. [A House Is Not A Home] Reference
This is postmodernism in its most paradoxical manifestation. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Philosophy is no exception to the era that postmodernism is creating. From Wordnik.com. [nisayon Diary Entry] Reference
Dylan had seen it coming; he had seen the iceberg of postmodernism up ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Can Summer at N.Y.U. Turn Jenna Bush Into a New Yorker?] Reference
Epistemology is an area of philosophy that has been affected by postmodernism. From Wordnik.com. [nisayon Diary Entry] Reference
These writers have betrayed the legacy of modernism, not to mention postmodernism. From Wordnik.com. [The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS)] Reference
Dealt death blow to postmodernism with crazily sculpted buildings, often in humble industrial materials. From Wordnik.com. [The Newsweek 100] Reference
The attached office building, by Keyes Condon Florance, is in the soulless style of super-postmodernism. From Wordnik.com. [What A Swell Ride It Was] Reference
I fell in love with his voice, a trace of Welsh accent that painted postmodernism with extra layers of color. From Wordnik.com. [Empathy] Reference
And this museum may end up so boring you will really need to believe the dogma of postmodernism to make the move. From Wordnik.com. [Mat Gleason: 10 Possible Acronyms for LA's New Eli Broad Museum] Reference
Gehry has led the way out of the swamp of postmodernism, which was an extremely necessary thing for someone to do. From Wordnik.com. [Minimalism, Maximalism And Everything In Between] Reference
Quote of the day: "It's always amusing to see how enthusiastically the political right has embraced postmodernism.". From Wordnik.com. [macarena] Reference
Is this some trite attempt to subvert the Santa Clausian sublimity of Handel's "Messiah" with perverse postmodernism?. From Wordnik.com. [BIRTH OF A BREAKTHROUGH] Reference
(Yeah, I know: Graduate school is a metaphor for the world-which could serve as a definition of postmodernism, come to think of it). From Wordnik.com. [Can Summer at N.Y.U. Turn Jenna Bush Into a New Yorker?] Reference
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