As pundits and scholars come to terms with the new “post-truth” era, the fingers point to a familiar intellectual culprit: postmodernism. Columnist Paul Waldman, writing in The American Prospect, ...

Let us deal with the term itself. Around 1880, the English salon painter John Watkins talked about how he and his friends wanted to move forward to a “postmodern style of painting” (Higgins, Dick: A ...

Vol. 33, No. 3, Postmodernism and Other Distractions: Situations and Directions for Critical Theory (Fall 1999), pp. 357-371 (15 pages) Ihab Hassan, one of the first critics to use the term ...

Administrative Theory & Praxis, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Sep., 2001), pp. 431-458 (28 pages) I propose a critical postmodern application of Debord's Spectacle and the carnivalesque of Bakhtin to the theatrics ...

David Roberts has an interesting post on Grist, asking whether climate change denialism has roots in postmodern theory. In general, he seems to come down on the side of "not really", but that's just ...

Norma Desmond, JFK, a Martian Pastel, and What’s American Studies? Twinless Turns Love Inside Out Cats in Medieval Manuscripts: Prancing, Prowling, and Pounding the Ivories The Roses Is a Hellish ...

Because they specialized in showing us many possibilities, most postmodernists did not say, "My view is absolutely correct. Any other theory is just wrong and stupid. I am the only one who knows the ...

There still remains much confusion over what postmodernity actually means, so take this sentence as only one attempt, courtesy of Urban Dictionary: “A term that you keep on hearing about in college ...

Terry Farrell, who has died aged 87, was one of the most conspicuous figures in British postmodernism – a designer unafraid ...