Word: postmoderns
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One’s first instinct upon entering the gallery might well be to ask if the displayed objects have any meaning at all, or if they are just a postmodern pastiche of whatever has recently caught the artist’s fancy. And this is a perfectly legitimate question, given the bewildering array of sights, sounds, and experiences that Evans presents to the viewer, a pastiche that seems almost impossible to make sense of. But the truth is much more complicated, and potentially even more insidious, than mere meaninglessness...
...what’s going on with Paris Hilton? National Treasure is so formulaic that if Nicholas Cage asked hottie Abigail about hotel heiresses it would charge the film with an exciting postmodern meta-discourse (comparatively). But the film’s ho-hum shenanigans aren’t devoid of eye-opening sexual elements, particularly the masculinity crisis embodied in Cage’s ‘girly’ sidekick Riley. Throughout the film he whines and moans about all the danger Gates is getting him into, in between his moments of rocket scientist computer wizardry. Riley refers...
Let’s be honest: University President Lawrence H. Summers and his son during halftime were throwing the ball better out there than Yale was. The most impressive part of Yale’s performance was its halftime show, some kind of postmodern interpretive riff on the James Bond classic Octopussy. And something about a ship...
...style and form, quiet regular parts followed by loud irregular parts, and a who-would-have-guessed it fade-out at the end. Considered altogether, the five songs on B EP are extraordinary and delectable sonic morsels, with their calculated intelligence in choice of timing space garnished by the postmodern genre-bending of their stylistic variations...
...only three criteria for what he reads and teaches: “aesthetic splendor, intellectual power, wisdom.” At this point in literary scholarship he suspects “the profession is pretty much split down the middle” between aestheticists like himself and more postmodern theorists...