Word: postmodernist
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...original shows to appear in New York City in the past few years should be by a dead artist who was dismissed by the modernist establishment when he was alive. (Oh, well, what else is new? Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?) He was John Koch. His work is at the New York Historical Society. As it should be, for it is intimately part of the history of Manhattan, as, say, Jackson Pollock...
Reaching back to early Marxism and forward to postmodernist literary theory (to say nothing of the practice of body piercing), Hardt and Negri finesse the argument by showing that both sides are right, yet both manage to miss the point. Globalization is a phenomenon with revolutionary, liberating potential--but in the process, it can crush the spirit of those for whom changes in social and economic structures are deeply disturbing. The trick is to find structures that preserve the economic gains of globalization without becoming just other forms of colonialism...
...fierce fire. He notes that "I would not expect Muslims or Buddhists to buy this wholly, at all." Even some fellow believers find it hard to square his vision of a peaceful, all-embracing Christianity with the religion that burned heretics and launched crusades. Besides, not everyone is a postmodernist. Conservatives cringe when he says that discussions of the actual physical reality of the resurrection have "no place" in his theology. But at the very least, he has cleared a way for theologians to reclaim their place at the academic table, ending decades, if not centuries, of marginalization...
...pedagogy at the elementary level should be about piquing interest and curiosity, about exciting the natural artistic proclivities of young students, about appealing to their sense of beauty-on their terms-not about inculcating them with the postmodernist party line: meaning is dead; beauty in the eye of the beholder...
...rocking and rolling, forcing everyone around it to pay attention. Since 1997, Galliano has been working to create a house of Dior that is racy, loud and, most of all, fun. Where Hedi sees simple shapes, John sees lavish layers. Where Slimane sees minimalism, Galliano sees extravaganza. Galliano, the postmodernist, takes the world and its history as his inspiration-creating collections that revisit the aesthetic of, say, the Amazons or the trailer park, and presents them in a whole new light...