Post Modernism

North Korea: The End Game of Post Modernism

Illya Szilak | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: North Korea Books, Post Modernism, North Korea Post Modernism, Writing About North Korea, Books About North Korea, Travel to North Korea, North Korea, Arts News
Illya Szilak

Little did I know that I was about to visit a country where the manufacture of national identity is not only overtly artificial, it has become a major industry. Going to North Korea is like seeing the mirror used in a magic trick.

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Matisyahu's Spiritual Evolution And What It Means For Us

Gabe Crane | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Shlomo Carlebach, Matisyahu, Chabad Lubavitch, Judaism, Chaordic, Post-Modernism, Artistic Process, Baal Teshuva, Chabad, Hannukah, Hanukkah, Spirit, Mysticism, Matisyahu Shaves, Religion News
Gabe Crane

While there are limitations in drawing conclusions from our celebrities' lifestyles, Matisyahu's choice does represent an important development in the underlying psycho-spiritual evolution of our time.

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LA Art Today: The Face of a Shiny Dusty City (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Art Openings, Andy Warhol, Post-Modernism, Los Angeles Art, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregory Way Gallery, Dave Tourje, Arts News
Tom Gregory

Art, like language, morphs words and tones to describe the world. It can be a reflective, interpretive, literal, and/or emotional. Important art passes the litmus test of time. It remains in the pop culture lingo to mark the space from whence it came.

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The Human Stain on "Sustainism"

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thoreau, Eco-System, Mega-Corporations, Egotism, Hedonism, Health Care, Agnosticism, Cubism, Biomimicry, Mother Nature, Graphic Aphorisms, Egalitarianism, Cradle-to-Cradle, Sexism, Urban Planning, Snake Oil Salesmen, Holistic, Mies Van Der Rohe, Rachel Carson, Post-Modernism, Childhood Mortality, Self-Sustaining, Tim Brown, Efficacy, The Silent Spring, Bio-Diversity, Bauhaus School, Greenwashing, Humanitarianism, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Humanism, Post-Impressionism, Impressionism, Egoism, Thudism, Green News
Michael DeJong

In its infancy, our little blue orb was a perfect place serenaded by little more than the swoosh of winds and the ebb of ocean tides. Enter humans.

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Possibility: An Eight Year Old Meets the Beatles

Zachary Stockill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Lennon, Anthology, 1995, Post-Modernism, Beatles, Youth, Music, Love, Ontario, Arts News
Zachary Stockill

I remember very clearly the first time I really heard the music of the Beatles. I was eight years old in 1995. The Anthology series was about to be broadcast and I was somewhat baffled, but equally intrigued.

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The Most Culturally Radical Show on TV (and Sometimes One of the Cheesiest) is on Fox

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, John Cage, Desmond Richardson, Celine Dion, Twyla Tharp, Nigel Lythgoe, Danny Tidwell, Post-Modernism, Dance, Modern Dance, Merce Cunningham, Entertainment News
Miles Mogulescu

When I want to spend an hour or two with the most culturally radical show on TV--a multi-racial, multi-cultural program where race, gender and sexual orientation truly don't seem to matter--I watch "So You Think You Can Dance".

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Why "Talk" Culture will Destroy the World

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Keen, Internet, Copyright, Remix, Collaboration, Nicholas Carr, Web, Michiko Kakutani, Post-Modernism, Jaron Lanier, Media, Technology, Farhad-Manjoo, Cass Sunstein, Technology News
Hugh McGuire

In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani takes on the Internet, remix culture, post-modernism and the technology-induced Decline of Western Civilizatio...

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David Shields: 'Plots Are For Dead People

The Millions | David Shields | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fiction, Novels, Writing, David Shields, Plot, Post-Modernism, Books, Reality Hunger, Books News

We live in a post-narrative, post-novel world. Plots are for dead people. Novelly novels exist, of course, and whenever I'm on a plane, it's all I see...

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Blague d'Art, March 1, 2010

Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clement Greenberg, Post-Modernism, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles News
Peter Frank

Folks, painting is back. And is that a good thing?

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The Good, the Bad, & the Mediated

Carter Phipps | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas De Zengotita, Consciousness, Mediated, Harpers Magazine, Narcissism, Marshall Mccluhan, Mediation, Posmodernity, Post-Modernism, Evolution, Pop Culture, Media, Norman Mailer, Culture, Media News
Carter Phipps

Everyone should read Thomas de Zengotita, not because he has the answers but because he's breaking new ground in tracking a whole field of disconcerting cultural trends.

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Evolutionary Psychology Under Attack?

Carter Phipps | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Enlightennext Magazine, Oedipal-Complex, Darwin, Evolutionary Psychology, Modernism, Sharon Begley, Massimo Biolcati, Post-Modernism, Evolution, David Sloan Wilson, Healthy Living News
Carter Phipps

Some feel that allowing an evolutionary basis for bad behavior is akin to making a Stone Age excuse for current moral failures.

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