P Quotes
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“Postmodernism is a very bogus term. I think it mostly applies to kitsch. I don't know of a single important artist who would ever even allow the term 'postmodern artist.' It's a creation of arts journalists. To me, it's a polite way of talking about failed art.”
“Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.”
“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.”
Source: Are Women Human?
“Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.”
“Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.”
“Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.”
“Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.”
“Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.”
“Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.”
“Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.”
“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.”
“Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.”
“Postmodernists have been at the leading edge of promoting the view that reality is socially constructed.”
Source: A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
“Postmoderniteit is een levenswijze die zich minstens sedert 1980 heeft verspreid over de postindustriële westerse samenleving in Europa, Noord-Amerika, Japan en Australië. Ze wordt gekenmerkt door gezinnen die steeds kleiner worden, door een sterk stijgend aantal echtscheidingen en minder huwelijken, door steeds meer buitenechtelijke geboortes, door een razendsnelle stijging van computer- en internet gebruik, door een forse stijging in het druggebruik, door steeds meer tijdsbesteding aan gaming, door een vals gevoel van toenemende vrijheid, door een stijging van de welvaart, enzovoort.”
Source: Postmoderniteit: Onzekerheid & Onveiligheid
“Postmoderniteit is voorlopig de meest recente samenlevingsvorm die zich ten tijde van de anomische technische arbeidsverdeling heeft gemanifesteerd. Ze is de opvolger van de moderniteit die zelf de opvolger van de traditionele samenleving was. Postmoderniteit mag niet worden verward met postmodernisme dat een periodecode in de kunst was, ook een (trieste) manier van filosofisch denken dat zich vooral heeft verspreid tussen 1970 en 1995 in Frankrijk – een idiote manier van denken die voorhield dat in de wetenschap algemene theorieën niet langer mogelijk zijn en dat er in een gedicht meer cognitieve waarheid verscholen zit dan in het complete Standard Model van de Fysica. De postmoderne filosofie is, met enige recul bekeken, een staaltje van hoogdravende nonsens geweest, ware het alleen nog maar omdat ze ontkende dat in de menswetenschap algemene theorieën onmogelijk zijn, als had het baanbrekend werk van Jürgen Habermas en Niklas Luhmann geen cognitieve betekenis.”
Source: Postmoderniteit: Onzekerheid & Onveiligheid
“Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.”
“Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.”
Source: Cool memories
“Postmodernizam obraća pažnju na modernizam. U osnovi su modernizmi binarne reakcije, a postmodernizam polinarna reakcija.”
“Postmodernizam otvara mogućnost za savremenost, ne samo da je čini ultimativnom, nego i mulitplikativnom.
A savremenost, savremenost je višeznačna.”
“POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret”
“Postojanje i svet izgledaju opravdani jedino kao estetski fenomen: u kom smislu nas upravo tragički mit treba da ubedi kako su čak i rugoba i nesklad umetnička igra koju volja, u večitom preobilju svoje naslade, igra sa samom sobom.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy
“Postoje ljubavi koje su kao kada Narcis uđe u Dvoranu ogledala u Versaju. Postoje i ljubavi koje su lišene svakog narcisizma, egoizma i razmišljanja isključivo o sebi. Postoje ljubavne priče koje ne deluju toliko snažno, a njihova lepota se krije u tome da dvoje postanu jedno.”
Source: Peščani sat
“Postoje neki problemi koje zaista ne možeš riješiti. Samo moraš naći način da s njima živiš.”
Source: Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
“Postoje praznine u nama? Čudno. Mislila sam da ono što nije moglo biti popunjeno vjerom, ljubavlju, popunjeno je suzama. A tim suzama pisana su velika djela.”
“Postoje stanovite ličnosti koje uzajamno utječu jedna na drugu, i to tako da što više govore, to više imaju reći jedno drugome. Kod njih se iz združivanja razvija privrženost, a iz privrženosti sjedinjavanje.”
Source: Villette
“Postpartum depression and anxiety that 11-20% of women experience is not at all the same as the more commonly experienced 'baby blues' 80% of women experience for a few weeks.”
Source: Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God
“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”
“Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides.”
“Postpartum depression makes you suddenly feel like a stranger to yourself, but knowing the clinical facts are the first step toward wellness.”
Source: Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God
“Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.”
“Postpone, not because you are being lazy. Postpone, only because you want to appear in a grand style.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“Postpone not your life.”
“Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.”
“Postponement: The father of failure.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Postponing action is only postponing achievement.”
Source: Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life
“Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.”
“Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.”
Source: The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage
“Postremo quid esse levius aut turpius, quam auctore hoste de summis rebus capere consilium?”
Source: The Conquest of Gaul
“Postrzegasz magię jako broń, Reid, ale nie masz racji. Ona po prostu... jest. Jeśli chcesz jej użyć do skrzywdzenia kogoś, wtedy krzywdzi, a jeśli chcesz jej użyć, żeby kogoś ocalić...
Wtedy ocala.”
“Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.”
“Postscript
And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightning of a flock of swans,
Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white,
Their fully grown headstrong-looking heads
Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.
Useless to think you’ll park and capture it
More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.”
“Postscriptum
Himmelskörper waren wir,
kreisend,
unser Universum.
Seesterne,
gestrandet,
zwischen Ebbe, Flut und Morgen.”
Source: Ich komme nicht zurück
“Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.”
“Poststructuralists are the snakes in the grass.”
“Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also has dissociative symptoms as an essential feature. PTSD has been classically seen as a biphasic disorder, with persons alternately experiencing phases of intrusion and numbing... [T]he intrusive phase is associated with recurrent and distressing recollections in thoughts or dreams and reliving the events in flashbacks. The avoidant/numbing phase is associated with efforts to avoid thoughts or feelings associated with the trauma, emotional constriction, and social withdrawal. This biphasic pattern is the result of dissociation; traumatic events are distanced and dissociated from usual conscious awareness in the numbing phase, only to return in the intrusive phase.”
Source: Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
“Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.”
“Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.”
“Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.”
“Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.”
Source: The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels
“Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.”