Bret Weinstein

The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its perception-based relatives. Since the creation in 1960s and '70s of novel, justice-oriented fields, these incompatible worldviews have repelled one another.

Alexandra Petri

Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.

American Journalist

Mark Fisher

Postmodernism is, of course, the dead end from which hauntology starts - but one of its role is to denaturalise what postmodernism has taken for granted, to conceive of postmodernism as a condition in the sense of a sickness.

British Writer

Jane Goldman

Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.

English Writer

Miguel Syjuco

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Filipino Writer

Jean-Francois Lyotard

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

French Philosopher

Twyla Tharp

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

American Dancer

Catharine MacKinnon

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

American Activist

Stanley Hauerwas

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

American Theologian

Scott Turow

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

American Novelist

Understand that postmodernism follows modernism, reacting against its ideals.

Chronological Placement

Postmodernism often mixes different artistic styles and periods together.

Artistic Fusion

It questions established norms and conventions in philosophy and art.

Questioning Norms

Postmodernism suggests that truths are subjective and variable, not absolute.

Subjective Truths

Be aware that postmodernism is a Western concept and might not resonate universally.

Cultural Awareness

It encourages skepticism towards grand narratives or all-encompassing theories.

Critical Perspective

 I mean, the story I tell is that I got mad at postmodernism -- at po-mo -- and said that fish were 500 million years earlier than man,