Word: pomo
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This ad lives up to its “curiously satisfying” slogan. For who anticipated that the “Asian Baptist Student Koinonia” would be so playfully PoMo? In the great Pop Art tradition, the ABSK has appropriated a classic image of American consumerism and turned it to its own purposes. The point of this endlessly reproduced parody is not, of course, to sell breath mints, but to advertise values antithetical to materialism itself...
...Plaid’s trademark heavenly synths, the funk came like a double shot of adrenaline and a breath of fresh air. The biggest response, other than to Mira dropping a booty ghetto-tech track at the end of her set, was the ominous “Pino Pomo.” From Rest Proof Clockwork, the track’s sinfully simple hip-hop pulse was a revelation in this context...
...reply comes a few hours later. Everything I'm about to learn, the note begins, is "not for attribution." Immediately, I dub my source Deep Thought and check my ethernet connection for taps. Anonymity, D.T. continues, "is already a pomo move. No one wants to take responsibility." I start worrying...
...quotation that infested so much Post-Modernist building in America and elsewhere--the kind of stuck-on, boutique historicism represented by Philip Johnson's 1984 Chippendale-top skyscraper for AT&T in New York City or Robert Stern's recyclings of the Shingle Style. It may be that PoMo quotation, of which a gutful has been served up over the past 25 years, served a useful purpose in reminding architecture's public that, yes, there was indeed a vast repertory of form and ornament on which early, messianic Modernism had turned its back. But it was mostly skin deep...
...lives, even if they are not there. We internalize the idea of being watched, of people seeing, judging and noting of us, to the extent that our behavior is controlled, but we are simultaneously victims and perpetrators. There is nowhere to hide. In short, Harvard is a pomo dream: you are who your friends are, where you go, where you eat. I'm sorry--for me, this doesn...