#postmodern

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable? ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#genocide #hold #perpetrators #postmodernism

Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem; it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#awareness #conscious-evolution #future-generations #global-awareness #modern-society

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

#called #destroys #expression #good #kind

It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#new-york #postmodern #power #dreams

No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#humor #postmodern #humor

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #postmodernism #humor

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

— Andrew Eldritch

#art #even #gesture #grasp #greater

Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#postmodernism #humor

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it. ↗

— D. Harlan Wilson

#fantasy #horror #humor #literary #postmodern

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

#effect #gives #instead #male #multicultural