Lawrence Weiner's "A RUBBER BALL THROWN ON THE SEA, Cat. No. 146" is displayed at the Hirshhorn Museum in blue, sans-serif lettering. Weiner was open to the seven words being produced in any color, ...

It's been more than 30 years since Jean-François Lyotard closed the historical door on Modernism. It was 1979, to be exact, when Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.

I was concelebrating at a funeral Mass for a deceased Jesuit. The homilist praised the deceased for having “built a bridge between postmodern culture and the church.” I was sitting in a tour bus in ...

Postmodernism, with its critique of modern assumptions about knowledge, language, authority and narrative, presents new challenges for preachers. Postmodernity is generally seen as entailing a ...

What, when and where was modernism? -- Retreats from the urban -- Monuments, modernism and the public space -- The nude in modernity and postmodernity -- From the machine aesthetic to technoculture -- ...

To understand postmodernism, we must first understand modernism. In the late 1800s, the Western world industrialized, secularized, urbanized, and democratized ...

According to Canadian sociologist David Lyon, the theory of secularization based on Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism--a "metanarrative" of the secularized academy--is dead ...

Forman, Paul. 2007. "The primacy of science in modernity, of technology in postmodernity, and of ideology in the history of technology." History and Technology, 23 ...