Changements d’horizon : Circa, une aventure éditoriale traversant les frontières by Valérie Morisson

“…It has contributed to disseminating contemporary aesthetic forms as well as postmodern theories, and has widened the scope of criticism. …”
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Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Highsmith’s mordantly unsettling narrative anticipates the mimetic fascination with murder in postmodern popular culture that ever since Thomas De Quincey’s 1827 satirical essay on the subject has abounded in fiction, nonfiction, and film. …”
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Kitsch, classes sociales et multiculturalisme dans My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) by Lionel Souquet

“…Finally, the typically postmodern aesthetics of kitsch (or camp) which characterizes the film invites to reflect on the links between taste and social status.…”
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Theology and rhetoric: redefining the relationship between res and verba by P. Lampe

“…Part IV shows a way to overcome postmodern indifference with regard to “truth.” …”
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The Question of Metropolitan Form: Introduction by Anne Vernez Moudon, François Claessens, David Prosperi

“…Many of the papers in this issue begin with the straw-man notion of a formless agglomeration of activities and spaces, the – for lack of a better phrase – postmodern urban experience.[1] There is a persistent theme in the related literatures of architecture, urban design and urban and regional planning that the physical form of the contemporary metropolis is un-describable. …”
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A critical assessment of John Milbank's Christology by N. Vorster

“…This inadequacy is probably due to the way in which he fuses Neo-Platonism and postmodern lingualism in order to construct his ontology. …”
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Conceptualising religion in the 21st century: Examining the proposal of Mark C. Taylor in After God

“…Hence, Taylor rejects any closed, rigid system of neo-foundationalism as found in our postmodern, globalised world. For Taylor, there are no solid grounds; there is only creative emergence, from which reality is figured and disfigured in an oscillating interplay. …”
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Avatars de Napalm Girl, June 8, 1972 (Nick Ut) : variations autour d’une icône de la Guerre du Vietnam by Anne LESME

“…This essay examines and analyses the iconic status of Nick Ut’s Vietnam photograph Napalm Girl (“Vietnam Napalm”, 1972) and its recycling in postmodern art and various media. Since it was published, this image has stood for the trauma of the Vietnam War and its lasting effects on the American collective memory. …”
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Enhancing of teaching and learning through constructive alignment by G. E. Dames

“…It appears that former and current students find it difficult to align their studies and to adapt to an unfamiliar, diverse, pluralistic and complex postmodern society. We teach content and assess students on the basis of what they know. …”
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EDUCATION: REAL AND DUE ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ: СУЩЕЕ И ДОЛЖНОЕ ОСВІТА: СУЩЕ ТА НАЛЕЖНЕ by V. V. Khmel

“…To the fore the question of what should be a process of education
 in the postmodern situation and on the basis of the Bologna concept. …”
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TÜKETİM TOPLUMU VE TÜKETİM TOPLUMUNA YÖNELTİLEN ELEŞTİRİLER ÜZERİNE BİR TARTIŞMA by Nil Esra Dal

“…Tüketim, çeşitli şekillerde ortayaçıksa da her zaman var olan bir olgudur. Postmodern eğilimler ile birliktetüketime yüklenen anlamlar değişmiştir. …”
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La Défense / Zone B (1953-91): Light and Shadows of the French Welfare State by Pierre Chabard

“…From the slab projects of Le Corbusier and his epigones to the urban compositions of postmodern architects, along the proliferating textures of Jacques Kalisz, or the humanized ‘grands ensembles’ of Emile Aillaud, the many EPAD projects for Zone B, built or not, constitute a complete collection that documents the evolution of the ‘architecture urbaine’ from the mid 1950s to the turn of the 1990s.…”
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A Critical Review of Orientalism, Post Modernism and Globalism by Shamsolmolok Mostafavi

“…Emphasizing that the main threat to religious faith in a postmodern society is the commodification of everyday life, he urges intellectuals, in the light of the created shifts in the global nature of consumerism, to reflect on the traditional ways in which Orientalism has been discussed. …”
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Biopolityczne ruchy tożsamościowe i racjonalność materialna. Przyczynek do dyskusji o potrzebie nowej wersji teorii krytycznej by Waldemar Bulira

“…According to the author of the paper, the usefulness of this new version of critical theory is revealed when it is applied to the phenomena occurring in the postmodern public sphere, especially in the context of the analysis of biopolitical identity movements. …”
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The Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights de Lin Haire-Sargeant (1992), ou le « deux en un » de la ré-écriture by Isabelle Roblin

“…We will study in this article how Lin Haire-Sargeant’s attempt at re-writing highlights the usual aims of the retro-Victorian novel: taking advantage of the blanks left by the source novels to propose to the reader a modern critical approach, while at the same time being as faithful as possible to the writing conventions of the 19th century, and suggesting another point of view on a well-known story, through a postmodern mixing of historical and fictive characters.…”
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The role of information in the information society by Lazarević Sofija

“…Closely related concepts are post-industrial society, postfordism, postmodern society, knowledge society, telematics society, information revolution and network society.…”
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И. Тургенев как протомодернист. Пьеса „Месяц в деревне” в контексте цикла эссе К. Гринберга „Защита модернизма”. Предвестие нового художественного стиля... by Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak

“…Understanding modern and postmodern discussions in the world of literature and fine arts seems to be impossible without the profound knowledge of Greenberg's opinions. …”
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Medyatik Gerçeklikte Kimlik Temsilleri: Televizyon Haberlerinin Aktörleri Üzerine Düşünceler by Sibel Karaduman

“…Her şeyin olağanüstü hızla değiştiği, görüntü ve imajın ön planda olduğu, yaşantıların tüketim merkezli hale geldiği postmodern çağda, kimlik anlamlandırması da değişime uğramış, iletişim teknolojilerinin zaman ve mekan algısını değiştirmesiyle kimlik kodlarında bir dönüşüm yaşanmıştır. …”
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“At the still point of the turning world:” T.S. Eliot and Gilles Deleuze by Zekiye ANTAKYALIOGLU

“…The same is true for Gilles Deleuze who, as a unique and idiosyncratic philosopher resists any categorization. We identify postmodern tendencies in the modernism of Eliot in the same way as we identify modernist sensibilities in the poststructuralism of Deleuze. …”
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The Place of Place in the 21st-Century American West by O. Alan Weltzien

“…Le concept d’espace dans la littérature américaine de l’Ouest a fait l’objet d’une critique et d’une remise en cause croissantes, particulièrement dans le cadre de la théorie postmoderne. Tout récemment, l’une de ces remises en cause, émanant de Neil Campbell dans l’ouvrage intitulé The Rhizomatic West, réfute les arguments essentialistes pour aborder le problème de l’espace. …”
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