28 Quotes About Postmodern
- Author David Mitchell
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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror."I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.
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- Author Michel-Rolph Trouillot
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I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots.
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- Author Michael Rogin
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Reagan’s easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.
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- Author Don DeLillo
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The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.
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- Author Jess C. Scott
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The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
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- Author Julien Torma
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Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.
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- Author David Harvey
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The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.
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- Author Don DeLillo
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...Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever.The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement.
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- Author Christopher H. Sartisohn
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Atomize and refigure the word.
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