As pundits and scholars come to terms with the new “post-truth” era, the fingers point to a familiar intellectual culprit: postmodernism. Columnist Paul Waldman, writing in The American Prospect, ...

We were hoping for it to happen in the early 2000s. We saw it coming with the opening of the exhibition “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 – 1990” at the V&A in London in 2011. But now, after ...

“I fear for the future of the humanities,” said scholar Helen Pluckrose. As should any reasonable individual. What is postmodern theory? And how did it result in this ideological corruption of the ...

We are no longer modern; we are contemporary. By the 1970s, the idea of the modern had become timeworn, and critics and philosophers diagnosed a turn to the postmodern. Now we seem to be in the midst ...

Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory—an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction ...

Editorial Introduction: Postmodernism's SF/SF's Postmodernism. Are we late? Are we early? Can it be we're on time? Linking postmodernism and SF is hardly a new thing; many of SF's most sophisticated ...

Fredric Jameson, professor of romance studies, Knut Schmidt Nielsen distinguished professor of comparative literature and director of the Institute for Critical Theory, is remembered for his ...

Written by AD Editorial Team Published on July 16, 2015 This article is part of ArchDaily Essentials, a series of articles which give you an overview of architecture's most important topics by ...