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Postmodernism

A Big Win For Experimental Poetry

John Lundberg | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

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

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 10.23.2009 | Politics

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
Anis Shivani

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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Is Sarah Palin the First Post-Modern Politician?

RJ Eskow | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Palin Resignation, Johnny Rotten, Postmodernism, Sarah Palin, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Palin's vision of politics is so profoundly radical that even performing the duties of office becomes unimportant. The job you sought is no longer the point. It's all about the performance. It's politics as Conceptual Art.

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Pomoboarding

Ross Robertson | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Environment, Brooklyn Food Conference, Sustainability, Food, Cultural Evolution, Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, Green Living, Living News
Ross Robertson

The girl at the Food Conference had all the nervous paranoia of a serial murderer, but none of the rap sheet. She was on the run from the PC police.

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What Ever Happened to Truth?

Carter Phipps | Posted 05.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Carter Phipps, Holocaust Revisionism, Iran, Intelligent Design, Objective Truth, Postmodernism, Truth, Living News
Carter Phipps

As a culture, we must begin to recognize that while truth and objectivity may not be absolutes that exist perfectly free of time and history, neither are they hopelessly embedded in personal perspectives.

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Farida Batool, Photography and Pakistani Lives

Monroe Price | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: Photography, Shari'a Law, Farida Batool, Aicon Gallery, Postmodernism, Pakistan Images, Beaconhouse National University, SOAS, Photograph, Pakistan, Pakistan Photograph, Lahore, Pakistani Girl Jumping Rope, World News
Monroe Price

Farida's image of a Pakistani girl is becoming iconic. She captures a cross between ruin and ritual. It's a side of Pakistan that rarely makes it into the American press.

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