Monday, September 3, 2012

Amazing Quotes 7: Post Modernism

Ah, post-modernism ... a view that is so strange that it makes it so hard to define it. A perspective that makes criticizing and de-constructing cool per se! Here is a clue how non-sense it is: you don't need a brain to write a post-mo article! A program can do it perfectly! Here are some quotes about Post-modernism:

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

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

"The postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland."
-- Umberto Eco, in the postscript of "The Name of the Rose."

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)”
-- Alan Sokal

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.”
-- Christopher Hitchens

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