Quotes About Post-modern

A massa não reunida e não reunível na sociedade pós-moderna não possui mais, por essa razão, um sentimento de corpo e espaço próprios; ela não se vê mais confluir e agir, não sente mais sua natureza pulsante; não produz mais um grito conjunto. Distancia-se cada vez mais da possibilidade de passar de suas rotinas práticas e indolentes para um aguçamento revolucionário.

I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.

I became a person who was very good at hiding her emotions. Maybe that was why people thought I was heartless. Apparently my face often had a blank expression. Huizi, my most intellectual friend, would say, "Fenfang, yours is the face of a post-modern woman.

The worse thing that contemporary qualitative research can imply is that, in this post-modern age, anything goes. The trick is to produce intelligent, disciplined work on the very edge of the abyss.

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

In the post-modern academic world, truth is often alleged to be relative.

Our bodies are rich sources of evidence about sexual selection pressures because they are visible, measurable, easily comparable with those of other species, and relatively undistorted by human culture. In recent years much nonsense has been written by post-modern theorists such as Michel Foucault about the social construction of the body, as if human bodies were the incarnation of cultural norms rather than ancestral sexual preferences.

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

I'm a sort of like post-modern vegetarian, I eat meat........Ironically.

I first wrote about Michael Jackson in the 1980s. His skin was growing paler, his features thinner, and his aura more feminine. Some called him a traitor to his race. Some fussed about his gender fluidity. I saw him as a post-modern shape-shifter. But the shifts grew more extreme and mysterious.

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.

he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.

The post-modern novel is now conceding, if not its absurdity, then its limited durability.

'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.

Everyone assumed it had to be some sort of biography, because if you are a woman and use yourself as a character, it has to be some sort of confessional, whereas if you're a man, you're actually doing some post-modern play on the novel, some critique on identity with lots of references to Foucault.

Fase pós-moderna da socialização, o processo de personalização é um novo tipo de controlo social desembaraçado dos processos pesados de massificação-reificação-repressão.

In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie Stackhouse' series author Charlaine Harris and 'True Blood' creator Alan Ball turned that whole mythology upside-down... It's not just about vampires. It's about a lot of different things.

The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and no little puzzlement.

Jargon-mongers certainly stuffed the business schools and used convoluted language to make banalities appear profound. However, no academics could come close to matching the obfuscation and murkiness of post-modern specialists in 'theory' – feminist theory, postcolonial theory, 'other' theory, critical race theory, queer theory, communicative action theory, structuration theory, neo-Marxian theory … any kind of theory, every kind of theory.