Postmodernism Quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
Martin Filler
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. View quote
Stanley Hauerwas
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter. View quote
Stanley Hauerwas
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. View quote
Jean-François Lyotard
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. View quote
Robert Venturi
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. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong. View quote
Tucker Max
[On postmodernism] We historians are, in a way, fighting for our lives. Certainly, we are fighting for the lives of innocent young people beset by devilish tempters who claim to offer higher forms of thought and deeper truths and insights – the intellectual equivalent of crack, in fact. Any acceptance of these theories – even the most gentle or modest bow in their direction – can prove fatal. View quote
Geoffrey Elton