Big Do-Nut Drive-in, Inglewood, Calif., 1976. (HUM Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) When, in the beginning, the Abrahamic God separated the heavens from the earth, the light from the ...
When asked to teach a course called “History Through Film,” Kevin Mattson, a professor of contemporary history at Ohio University, was ambivalent at first. “It struck me as the ...
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 ...
Postmodern architecture is a style of building design that emerged in the ’70s and ’80s as a reaction against the dogmas and ideals of modernism and the international style. “It saw a whole range of ...
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 ...
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, ...
A new book by Stuart Jeffries claims we never left behind this heady, late-20th-century period of cultural and political expression. Big Do-Nut Drive-in, Inglewood, Calif., 1976. (HUM Images / ...
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 ...