BLAME IT ON PO-MO?

Post-Modernism has got a bad name. “Mind you, most of them are never quite sure what postmodernism might be, but they know that it’s evil. Indeed, all of the contemporary world’s ills can be sheeted home to its pernicious influence.” And yet, ultimately, civilization will continue. – Sydney Morning Herald 10/27/00

  • FINALLY, A PRACTICAL DEFINITION OF POST-MODERNISM: According to John Barth: “Postmodernism consists somehow of being able to tie your necktie in a perfect full-Windsor knot while telling somebody what the stages are in tying a necktie – and at the same time discoursing on the history of men’s neckwear from the court of Louis XIV to the present and still not screwing up the knot.” – Chicago Tribune 10/27/00