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, ...

Designers are calling time on six home trends they say are already oversaturated in 2026, from fluted millwork to post-modernism. While these styles have dominated social media and showrooms, experts ...

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 ...

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 ...

In November 1996, The New York Times published a list that I prepared of 35 landmarks-in-waiting—buildings scattered throughout the boroughs that, in my opinion, deserved to be designated and ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...