Postmodernism

The War on Women... and the War Within Women

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: War on Women, Rush Limbaugh, Feminism, Postmodernism, Laura Kipnis, Femininity, Politics News

"Femininity" is women's past, and "feminism" is our present. What I mean by this is not what you might think -- I'm not pitting family and children against career and culture, or wanting a push-up bra versus wearing no bra.

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Science, a Force for Freedom and Human Rights

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Anti-Vaccine Movement, Science, Climate Change, Mao Zedong, Postmodernism, Fang Lizhi, China, Freedom, Science News

That a Chinese astrophysicist's passing is noted in a prestigious American literary journal is a testament to how Fang Lizhi crossed boundaries between the two cultures of humanities and science, and was much admired, even loved, in both.

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The Physicist and the Porn Star

Max Raskin | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Pornography, Porn Stars, Nyu, Porn, New York University, Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind, Lorelei-Lee-Porn, Postmodernism, Sex, Lorelei Lee, Literary Criticism, Lorelei-Lee, Lorelei Lee NYU Pornstar, Culture News

The trouble with creative writing classes in the modern university is they do not teach writing. Pop-cultural analysis, pop-psychology, and pop-philosophy are discussed, while how to write a compelling sentence is not.

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No Absolutes: A Shyster's Dream World

Charles Redfern | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Campaign 2012, Postmodernism, Postmodern, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Charles Redfern, 2012 Presidential Campaign, Newt Gingrich, Presidential Campaign, Election 2012, Religion News

Don't ferret the truth -- because there is no truth. There are only positions and opinions and feelings and beliefs. One opinion is just as valid as the other in the rudderless sea and the clowns have tied down the anchor.

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Storied Nature Of Human Nature

William Grassie | Posted 05.15.2012

By my rough estimation, we spend perhaps 50 percent or more of our waking hours in storytelling. Humans make stories but, in some sense, we are also made by our stories.

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Art, Love, & Politics In The 1980s

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Helen Molesworth, This Will Have Been: Art, Video, & Politics in the 1980's, Postmodernism, Guerrilla Girls, Lorraine O'Grady, Feminist Art, Slidepollajax, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA Chicago, Feminism, Arts News

While pop culture makes the 80s out to be all bad perms, neon, and saccharine pop songs, on a deeper level this was a profoundly transformative decade...

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The Many Faces Of Cindy Sherman

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Photography, Postmodern Photography, Video, Postmodernism, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, Cindy Sherman, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Female Artists, Arts News

Cindy Sherman's photographs are anonymous autobiographies. By taking on the roles of author, director, make-up artist, hairstylist, wardrobe mistress ...

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Looking Closer At Absence

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Avant Garde, John Cage, African American History, Miles David, Jazz, Modernism, Art History, Postmodernism, Jennie Jones, Jones, Jennie C. Jones, Sound Art, Barack Obama, Black History Month, Arts News

Jennie C. Jones' works address absence. Yet instead of treating absence as pure lack, Jones explores its texture, its logic, its intention, its residu...

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Why Religious Fundamentalism Can't Last

Christian Piatt | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Fundamentalism, Postmodern Theology, Christian Theology, Postmodernism, Jesus, Christianity, Christian Fundamentalism, Mark Driscoll, John Piper, Emerging Church, Christian, Postmodern Christianity, Religion News

Although fundamentalist and dogmatic approaches to religion may be more vocal in their reaction to the emerging church, this does not necessarily mean that they are gaining popular momentum.

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Real Teshuvah

Gabe Crane | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Yom Kippur, Judaism, Teshuvah, Rosh Hashanah, Teshuva, Renewal Judaism, Atonement, Halakha, Repentance, High Holidays, Aviva Zornberg, Shofar, Postmodernism, What Is Teshuvah, Jewish Renewal, High Holidays Reflection, Religion News

The blast of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah calls out to all of us: "Wake up! You have been sleeping!" The slumber is clear. The choice is ours. But to what is it that we awaken?

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The Legacy of Postmodernism

J. Michael Welton | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Robert a.M. Stern, Postmodernism, Robert Venturi, James Wines, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, Michael Graves, Victoria & Albert Museum, David Byrne, London Art, Postmodernism History, 1980s Art, 1990s Art, April Greiman, Arts News

Almost as quickly as it arrived and changed our world, Postmodernism disappeared. But with a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, it's time now to take a look back at its evolution.

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Boris Lurie's Perverse Pin-ups And The NO!art Movement

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Art Market, Holocaust Survivor, Gertrude Stein, Avant-Garde, No! Art, Boris Lurie, Nazi, Holocaust, Postmodernism, Pop Art, Feminist Art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Selected Pinups, Naked, Pin-Ups, World War II, Nsfw, Sexy, Arts News

"Suitcase" 1964, Boris Lurie, Courtesy of the Boris Lurie Foundation Only if it had arrived in a suitcase could the entrance of renegade Boris Luri...

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Leo Steinberg, Legendary Art Historian Passes Away

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Columbia University, Artinfo, Art History, University of Pennsylvania, Postmodernism, Harvard, Art Critics, Arts News

NEW YORK-- Leo Steinberg, the Russian-born art historian and Renaissance scholar whose work had a heroic impact on the understanding and reception of ...

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Building the Just City: Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasilia

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Design, Brazil, Postmodernism, Urbanism, Urban Planning, City Planning, Shantytown, Urban-Population-Growth, Book Reviews, Architecture, Books News

Brazil was not the only developing country beset with exploding urban populations but the transition to democracy in Brazil allowed for a dramatic change in the goals and tools of urban planning.

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Show Me the Sex

Suzanne Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sex, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Postmodernism, Wuthering Heights, English Literature, The Real Housewives, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, Victorian Literature, Christmas Novels, Christmas Books, Christmas Literature, Books News

Christmas is the time for 19th century novels, especially of the English variety. I've always hated them. The Brits, I decided at 13, were frustrated, neutered people. I didn't want to visit England, for fear my genitals would wither and harden like a dried pomegranate.

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Santa, Deconstructed

Derek Nystrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Santa Claus, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Irony, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Politics News

I've recently realized that Santa Claus actually enacts, in miniature, the various stages of our gradual recognition of and acquiescence to contemporary forms of power and authority. No, seriously, he does. Here's how.

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Modernist (R)evolution in Chelsea: The Premiere of Adi Da Samraj

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chelsea, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Adi Da Samrag, Postmodernism, Chelsea Art Galleries, Arts News

Curated by the Italian critic Achille Bonito Oliva, Orpheus and Linead celebrates a joyous union of opposites that polarized 20th century art into objective/nonobjective and abstract/figurative.

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Short Stories

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Short Stories, Blake Butler, Modernism, Flannery O'Connor, Postmodernism, Independent Presses, Novels, American Fiction, Mfa Programs, T C Boyle, Experimental Fiction, Creative Writing, Books News

A short story is like a toothache and you must drill it and fill it. A novel is more like bridgework.

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Modernism's Empty Empty Spaces

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Modernist-Architecture, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bauhaus, Postmodernism, Arts News

There is an intriguing connection between modernism's claim to unbridled liberty and the way that it has shaped the physical environment in which we live.

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I Don't Deconstruct

John Seed | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Art Education, Art Criticism, Postmodernism, Pasadena-Art-Center-College-of-Design, Dalai Lama, Chairman Mao, Arts News

Each generation of artists, professors and students seems to develop its own set of rigid rules and values.

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David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, David Foster Wallace, Tolstoy, Books, Postmodernism, Author Interviews, Narrative, Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, Reading, David Lipsky, Book Review, The New York Review of Books, Nyr, Bestsellers, Books News

Smarter than You Think Wyatt Mason The New York Review of Books Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallac...

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Racist Rhetoric on a Scrap of Paper

Emilie Townes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racism, Social Engagement, Religion, Environmental Justice, Postmodernism, Religion News

We often hide behind such phrases as "culture wars" or "clash of civilizations." These phrases make it far too easy for us to shrug our shoulders, build higher walls, dig deeper trenches, and refuse to examine why we seem to have an ever-growing fear of each other.

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Phone Sex & Architectural Modernism: Your Weekend To-Do List

Flavorpill LA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julius Schulman, Flavorpill LA, Postmodernism, Laemmle Sunset 5, Easier-With-Practice, Los-Angeles-Art-Show, Architecture, Travis Somerville, Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles, Los-Angeles-Theater, Los Angeles Cultural Events, Charlie James Gallery, Flavorpill, Events, Los-Angeles-Culture, Kyle-Patrick-Alvarez, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles News

For the rest of the best in art and culture this weekend, check out Flavorpill LA Easier with Practice To the Hollywood films that portray women a...

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A Big Win For Experimental Poetry

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Avant Garde, Transcendental Studies, Writing, Postmodernism, Postmodern, Keith Waldrop, Verse, Poetry, John Lundberg, Communication, Healthy Living News

If you read a review of Keith Waldrop's "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy," this year's winner of the National Book Award, there's a good chance it will include the word "postmodern" or "avant-garde.

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Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ivory Tower, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Aphasia, Derrida, Ivy League, Mormonism, Lost in the Meritocracy, Intellectuals, Meritocracy, Yale, Harvard, Walter Kirn, Education, Keasbey Scholarship, Wall Street, High Schools, Princeton, Western Canon, Competition for Ivy League, Rhodes Scholarship, Theory, Schools, Academia, Education Reform, Higher Education, Public Education, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Postmodern Theory, Learning, Elite, Oxford University, Class, Oxford, Minnesota, Ruling Elite, Income Inequality, Great Books, Classics, Humanities, Politics News

Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

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