Note: “Explainer” is our newest addition to the series of features on Off the Agenda. Here editor Drew Dyck will tackle current ideas, movements, or whatever else people are talking about. He doesn’t ...

The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing. On Sunday, the literary theorist and critic Fredric Jameson—an intellectual titan and one ...

Why would a watch collector need or want to understand the notoriously vague and confusing concept of postmodernism? To understand postmodernism, we must first understand modernism. In the late 1800s, ...

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 ...

Aug 3 (Reuters) - The murder last week of the Catholic priest Jacques Hamel as he celebrated morning mass in a church in the suburb of the French city of Rouen showed that Islamic State is the most ...

Postmodernism is a big, cumbersome word, but that’s fitting because the concept is big and cumbersome. The fact is, however, we are living in this “ism” right now. As Bob Dylan summed it up at the ...

"First given as a paper at a conference on post-modernism at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in October 1985, and again later that month in Hannover, Germany, at a second conference on the ...

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...

This shift from modernism to postmodernism carried political and spatial consequences. As civic investment declined, museums, campuses, commercial developments, and corporate institutions increasingly ...