Postmodernism Quotes

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

Work, End, Become

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
Twyla Tharp

Good, Means, Word

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
Andrew Eldritch

Art, Alone, Greater

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
Terry Eagleton

Sick, Joke, Among

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
Catharine MacKinnon

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
Brad Holland

Reality, Real, Used

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Scott Turow

Literature, Audience, Cost

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
Catharine MacKinnon

Pretty, Violence, Universal

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

Women, Men, Theory

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict.
Elizabeth Wilson

Difference, Conflict, Privilege

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