Postmodernism Quotes
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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
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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
Catharine MacKinnon
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Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.
David Roochnik
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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
Stanley Hauerwas
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As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith
Terry Eagleton
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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
