Word: postmodernism
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...past, Bloom has been labeled a conservative by some for his defense of canonical Western writers against postmodern and deconstructionist critics in recent years. (For the record, he calls himself a “left-wing Democrat, whatever that means these days...
...Giants cut Wolfe after two days, and he became a giant of another kind. Wolfe is one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed postmodern era. With books like The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, he has built a towering reputation both as a journalist and as a novelist, scoring both literary acclaim and commercial success in the process. He has hung out with Black Panthers and astronauts. He has feuded with John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving simultaneously...
...picture can tell a thousand words," says FitzGerald, "we have quite lyrically dense songs." Just don't try singing them. Like the mystery rings found in '70s cereal boxes, "We send out messages, but it's for you to decode what they are," FitzGerald says. "It's a postmodern sort of thing - code, decode, recode." The sound is music to Heidi's ears...
...church. Clergy are realizing that unless we reorient how we talk about our faith, we will lose the next generation." He sees movies as modern parables that connect to an audience that seeks not reason but emotional relevance. "As the culture has moved from a modern to a postmodern era, we have moved from wanting to understand truth rationally to understanding truth as it's embedded in story," he says...
Take the Moore/Limbaugh divide. A new Annenberg poll shows that the two infotainers are little more than postmodern tribal leaders: an estimated 8% of Americans saw Fahrenheit 9/11 in July, and an estimated 7% listened to Limbaugh. Their tribes are hilariously antithetical on a range of issues--83% of Rushites support the way Bush is handling Iraq, 87% of Mooreists are opposed; 85% of Rushites support Bush's handling of the economy, and 82% of Mooreists don't. And yet, these extremist clumps throw disproportionate weight in the public square. Dick Cheney appears on Limbaugh's show; Moore appears...