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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Eine kurze Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction by Hans Esselborn

“…After this, three generations of writers emerged, partly shaped by cybernetics, the fantastic, pop, cyberpunk and postmodernism. I will focus on Herbert W. Franke and Dietmar Dath as representing the elder and the younger generation respectively.…”
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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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The Cultural Economy Moment? by Flew Terry

“…While it has intellectual precursors in political economy, sociology and postmodernism, it has been work undertaken in the fields of cultural economic geography, creative industries, the culture of service industries and cultural policy where it has come to the forefront, particularly around whether we are now in a ‘creative economy’. …”
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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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An Archaeology of Passage: Adrian Piper Passing and Not Passing as the Mythic Being by Cat Dawson

“…I also call up Piper’s oft-elided indebtedness to Black and feminist representational strategies to both demonstrate the centrality of those traditions to postmodernism, and to reveal a new perspective on the work as participating in a coalition politics via social address.…”
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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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The Role of Information War in the Strengthening of Stereotypes about Russia in the Western Political Space by Irina Milutinović, Aleksandar Gajić

“…Media and information policies play an indispensable role in shaping stereotypes in the modern and postmodern era. Therefore, the aim of this research is to point at the role of media discourse in supporting and forming negative stereotypes about contemporary Russia. …”
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