History Quotes / PostModernism

->''The term 'modernization' has begun to sound [[DeadHorseTrope pass&eacute]]; in an age that is often described as post-modern. But [[TropesAreNotBad that is appropriate]] for our subject, since the industrial and technological modernity for which the Bolsheviks strove now seems [[{{Zeerust}} hopelessly outdated]]: the giant smoke-stacks that clutter the landscape of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe like [[PollutedWasteland a herd of polluting dinosaurs]] were, in their time, [[SocietyMarchesOn the fulfillment of a revolutionary dream]].''

->''The term 'modernization' has begun to sound [[DeadHorseTrope passé[[ in an age that is often described as post-modern. But [[TropesAreNotBad that is appropriate]] for our subject, since the industrial and technological modernity for which the Bolsheviks strove now seems [[{{Zeerust}} hopelessly outdated]]: the giant smoke-stacks that clutter the landscape of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe like [[PollutedWasteland a herd of polluting dinosaurs]] were, in their time, [[SocietyMarchesOn the fulfillment of a revolutionary dream]].''

->''"''Videogame/EarthBound'' offers us a glimpse into the mind of the dungeon design auteur. Meet Brick Road. Jeff first bumps into him in Winters after navigating the 'modest' dungeon he constructed and opened to the public (with no admission fee). Judging by all the signs and signatures he places throughout his dungeons, Brick Road feels very passionately about his work and wants people to understand and appreciate what goes into it. He's so interested in dungeons, in fact, that he has Dr. Andonuts turn him into one... But soon Dungeon Man gets inextricably tangled in some trees. Aside from feeling sad about saying goodbye to his new friends, Brick Road doesn't seem too upset about being stuck in the same spot for the rest of his existence. Staying in one place and waiting for people to find you is the lot of the dungeon, after all. (Could it otherwise be an allusion [[AuthorOnBoard to the loneliness of the dedicated video game designer?!]] Workers in the field are known to work very long hours. [[Creator/ShigesatoItoi Itoi]] himself admits to sleeping on a row of chairs in the APE offices during Videogame/EarthBound's development.)"''

->''"There is no coherent plot, because a structural narrative is no longer of central importance. Instead it is an extended [[ViewersAreGoldfish fast and frantic assemblage]] of short scenes, each one freely drawn from a wide variety of familiar and established genres -- such as romance, conflict, loss, thriller, transformation, nostalgia, festive, comedy, religious, etc. Thus the audience receives a jumbled, ‘wibbly-wobbly’ series of brief but emotionally intense experiences... Meanwhile TV programmes have become increasingly less about the content and more with the engagement with the media-hyped, attractive, good-looking male and female ‘eye candy’ celebrities, and indeed the writer, or creator, himself. We are simultaneously watching The Doctor and Creator/MattSmith, Clara Oswald and Jemma Coleman. We are watching ''Dr Who'' and at the same time analysing what Creator/StevenMoffat is up to and where he might be going next. And a growing number of us are taking this a step further and [[{{Twitter}} tweeting]] as we watch: our former ‘water-cooler’ moments are rapidly becoming live, as we watch, social interactions."''

->''"Postmodern art is meant to be counter-intuitive, and [[TrollFic deliberately ruin your experience]]...It’s about knowing what people want, proving that you could give it them if you wanted to, and then taking it away. (The reason why postmodern art is associated with {{breaking the fourth wall}} is because there are very few times when an audience expects and enjoys it.) Really it’s just about betrayal."''

->''"For those keeping track, that was a reference to a parody,z ''of'' a parody. I'll have to check the official guidebook, but I think that makes it funny again!"''

->''"''Videogame/EarthBound'' offers us a glimpse into the mind of the dungeon design auteur. Meet Brick Road. Jeff first bumps into him in Winters after navigating the 'modest' dungeon he constructed and opened to the public (with no admission fee). Judging by all the signs and signatures he places throughout his dungeons, Brick Road feels very passionately about his work and wants people to understand and appreciate what goes into it. He's so interested in dungeons, in fact, that he has Dr. Andonuts turn him into one... But soon Dungeon Man gets inextricably tangled in some trees. Aside from feeling sad about saying goodbye to his new friends, Brick Road doesn't seem too upset about being stuck in the same spot for the rest of his existence. Staying in one place and waiting for people to find you is the lot of the dungeon, after all. (Could it otherwise be an allusion [[CreatorCameo to the loneliness of the dedicated video game designer?!]] Workers in the field are known to work very long hours. [[Creator/ShigesatoItoi Itoi]] himself admits to sleeping on a row of chairs in the APE offices during Videogame/EarthBound's development.)"''

-->-- '''Tatsuya Ishida''', ''{{Sinfest}}''

->''""At some point a hundred years ago, [[LaymansTerms time and space compressed and everyone went crazy.]]"''

->''I had a lengthy discussion about'' The Power of Myth
->''With a postmodern author, who didn't exist''

->''I'm so postmodern I bought a round the world plane ticket, and stuffed my clothes with eggplant and pretended it was me.\\

I’m so postmodern I wrote a letter to the council. ... I think it was ‘M.’''

->''Hey, we're inside a box.\\
Outrageous. Nobody puts [me] in a box. For I defy all categories.''

->''For those keeping track, that was a reference to a parody, ''of'' a parody. I'll have to check the official guidebook, but I think that makes it funny again!''

->''I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, "I love you madly," because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, "As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly."''

->''"There is no coherent plot, because a structural narrative is no longer of central importance. Instead it is an extended fast and frantic assemblage of short scenes, each one freely drawn from a wide variety of familiar and established genres -- [[MoodWhiplash such as romance, conflict, loss, thriller, transformation, nostalgia, festive, comedy, religious, etc.]] Thus the audience receives a jumbled, ‘wibbly-wobbly’ series of brief but emotionally intense experiences... Meanwhile TV programmes have become increasingly less about the content and more with the engagement with the media-hyped, attractive, good-looking male and female ‘eye candy’ celebrities, and indeed the writer, or creator, himself. We are simultaneously watching The Doctor and Creator/MattSmith, Clara Oswald and Jemma Coleman. We are watching Dr Who and at the same time analysing what Creator/StevenMoffat is up to and where he might be going next. And a growing number of us are taking this a step further and [[{{Twitter}} tweeting]] as we watch: our former ‘water-cooler’ moments are rapidly becoming live, as we watch, social interactions."''

->''"''Videogame/EarthBound'' offers us a glimpse into the mind of the dungeon design auteur. Meet Brick Road. Jeff first bumps into him in Winters after navigating the 'modest' dungeon he constructed and opened to the public (with no admission fee). Judging by all the signs and signatures he places throughout his dungeons, Brick Road feels very passionately about his work and wants people to understand and appreciate what goes into it. He's so interested in dungeons, in fact, that he has Dr. Andonuts turn him into one... But soon Dungeon Man gets inextricably tangled in some trees. Aside from feeling sad about saying goodbye to his new friends, Brick Road doesn't seem too upset about being stuck in the same spot for the rest of his existence. Staying in one place and waiting for people to find you is the lot of the dungeon, after all. (Could it otherwise be an allusion [[CreatorCameo to the loneliness of the dedicated video game designer?!]] Workers in the field are known to work very long hours. [[Creator/ShigesatoItoi Itoi]] himself admits to sleeping on a row of chairs in the APE offices during Videogame/EarthBound's development.)"''
-->--'''[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=earthbound Pat R.]]'''

->''"If the nutshell of the story involves shadowy conspirators who construct a command center that allows them to fabricate grand lies, then it's easily an extended metaphor for the game itself, with Raiden being an analog for the player's real-life role as a ''Metal Gear'' fan. He's [[StrawFan a delusional, video game-addled rookie]] who was a fan of Solid Snake, and he believed the conspirators' lies up until the very end. And once the curtain's pulled, he's frustrated and confused, and doesn't really know what to think of it all. It was a deliberate bait-and-switch. [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]] ''knew'' that players weren't expecting this. He ''knew'' that Raiden would be unappealing and unpopular. He ''knew'' that people weren't gonna like it. And he ''used'' that to tell the story... The message is about [[CashCowFranchise fanboyism]] and [[NeverTrustATrailer hype.]] It's about the environment that surrounded the game's launch and what they ''expected'' it to do."''
-->-- '''George Weidman''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-2YuPGYabw&feature=youtu.be on]] ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''

->''"If the nutshell of the story involves shadowy conspirators who construct a command center that allows them tp fabricate grand lies, then it's easily an extended metaphor for the game itself, with Raiden being analog for the player's real-life role as a ''Metal Gear'' fan. He's [[StrawFan a delusional, video game-addled rookie]] who was a fan of Solid Snake, and he believed the conspirators' lies up until the very end. And once the curtain's pulled, he's frustrated and confused, and doesn't really know what to think of it all. It was a deliberate bait-and-switch. [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]] ''knew'' that players weren't expecting this. He ''knew'' that Raiden would be unappealing and unpopular. He ''knew'' that people weren't gonna like it. And he ''used'' that to tell the story... The message is about [[HypeBacklash fanboyism and hype.]] It's about the environment that surrounded the game's launch and what they ''expected'' it to do."''

->''"There is no coherent plot, because a structural narrative is no longer of central importance. Instead it is an extended fast and frantic assemblage of short scenes, each one freely drawn from a wide variety of familiar and established genres -- [[MoodWhiplash such as romance, conflict, loss, thriller, transformation, nostalgia, festive, comedy, religious, etc.]] Thus the audience receives a jumbled, ‘wibbly-wobbly’ series of brief but emotionally intense experiences, not unlike jumping from one webink to the next without any idea of the time or place in which it was created. Meanwhile TV programmes have become increasingly less about the content and more with the engagement with the media-hyped, attractive, good-looking male and female ‘eye candy’ celebrities, and indeed the writer, or creator, himself. We are simultaneously watching The Doctor and Creator/MattSmith, Clara Oswald and Jemma Coleman. We are watching Dr Who and at the same time analysing what Creator/StevenMoffat is up to and where he might be going next. And a growing number of us are taking this a step further and [[{{Twitter}} tweeting]] as we watch: our former ‘water-cooler’ moments are rapidly becoming live, as we watch, social interactions."''

->''"This is no hierarchical administration-led, science and logic-driven Star Trek. There is no coherent plot, because a structural narrative is no longer of central importance. Instead it is an extended fast and frantic assemblage of short scenes, each one freely drawn from a wide variety of familiar and established genres – such as romance, conflict, loss, thriller, transformation, nostalgia, festive, comedy, religious, etc. Thus the audience receives a jumbled, ‘wibbly-wobbly’ series of brief but emotionally intense experiences, not unlike jumping from one webink to the next without any idea of the time or place in which it was created. Meanwhile TV programmes have become increasingly less about the content and more with the engagement with the media-hyped, attractive, good-looking male and female ‘eye candy’ celebrities, and indeed the writer, or creator, himself. We are simultaneously watching The Doctor and Creator/MattSmith, Clara Oswald and Jemma Coleman. We are watching Dr Who and at the same time analysing what Creator/StevenMoffat is up to and where he might be going next. And a growing number of us are taking this a step further and [[{{Twitter}} tweeting]] as we watch: our former ‘water-cooler’ moments are rapidly becoming live, as we watch, social interactions."''

->The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth -- it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

->''"Postmodern art is meant to be counter-intuitive, and [[TrollFic deliberately ruin your experienc]]...It’s about knowing what people want, proving that you could give it them if you wanted to, and then taking it away. (The reason why postmodern art is associated with {{breaking the fourth wall}} is because there are very few times when an audience expects and enjoys it.) Really it’s just about betrayal."''

->I had a lengthy discussion about The Power of Myth
->With a postmodern author, who didn't exist
-->-- ''Soul Singer in a Session Band'' by '''Bright Eyes'''

->''I'm so postmodern I bought a round the world plane ticket, and stuffed my clothes with eggplant and pretended it was me.''

-->-- '''UmbertoEco'''

->-- '''The Bedroom Philosopher''', "I'm So Postmodern".

->-- '''Tatsuya Ishida''', ''{{Sinfest}}'' (webcomic)

->-- '''Michael Swaim'''

->-- '''UmbertoEco'''


->The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
->-- '''Jean Baudrillard''', ''Simulacra and Simulation''

->--''Soul Singer in a Session Band'' by '''Bright Eyes'''

->-- '''Jean Baudrillard''', ''Simulacra and Simulation''

->History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. [[OverlyLongGag Sometimes people say, "Here is something new!"]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new.]]
->-- '''Ecclesiastes 1:9-10''', ''TheBible''. Yes, ''[[OlderThanFeudalism The freaking Bible]]''.

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->-- '''Umberto Eco'''