142 Quotes About Postmodernism

The detective searches out clues as a way to unobjectify the past much like the historical materialist does. But a financial logic is different: it is future oriented, and one does not discover what was hidden, rather one waits to see what will be transacted, what financial future will become of the present.

What is that unforgettable line?

shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz, self-mocking materialism, blank indifference, and the delusion that cynicism and naïveté are mutually exclusive?

Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus?

The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

Postmodern thought is often misunderstood, and the concept of pluralism—the recognition of many contexts and the understanding that no one context is privileged in and of itself—is often con- fused with the absurd notion that every approach, culture and tradition is commensurate and of equal merit.

There is no sense in doing without the concepts of metaphysics in order to attack metaphysics. We have no language—no syntax and no lexicon—which is alien to this history; we cannot utter a single destructive proposition which has not already slipped into the form, the logic, and the implicit postulations of precisely what it seeks to contest.

Reason is a tool of weaklings who are afraid to be naked in the face of a cruel and conflictual reality and who therefore build fantasy intellectual structures to hide in.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.