Postmodernism Quotes

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

Arnold Aronson
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

Stanley Hauerwas

Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

Nicolas Bourriaud
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Catharine MacKinnon
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Stanley Hauerwas
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

David Roochnik
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.

Eva Zeisel
- Creation
- Impulse
- Motive
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

Terry Eagleton
- Belief
- Postmodernism