modernism
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He is probably the only artist who appeals at once to postmodernists obsessed with the failures of language and rock ’n’ rollers enamored of hallucinatory visions.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021
That this echoed — or mirrored — the work of the postmodernists was part of the point, a strategy for putting their radical notions of subjectivity into play outside the walls of the academy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2021
Pinker accuses postmodernists of “defiant obscurantism, self-refuting relativism and suffocating political correctness.”
From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2021
But Peck is just as much the keeper of the flame of the precision postmodernists like William H. Gass, another Midwesterner who had a way with metaphor and a burning fury against politesse.
From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2019
The postmodernists were not the first to challenge the claim that knowledge of matters of fact is true knowledge.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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