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  • The po-mo winks in Haneke are the least interesting aspect of his stuff, and FG is pretty much an exercise in such bs.

    Matthew Yglesias » The White Ribbon 2010

  • I've been having the same problem, but pre-mo, not po-mo.

    What's with all the flashbacks? Roger Sutton 2009

  • So, engaging in a little po-mo deconstructionism, we learn that Obama is a liar and Feingold is a fool.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bygones 2009

  • Please don't bash this architecture, or they'll just go back to putting up tangled warrens of wannabe po-mo faux timber frame townhouses that are mostly vinyl but "evoke" quality materials and construction.

    Latest condo fizzle: 38th and Belmont (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Thirty years later, hip-hop language is a little more po-mo.

    The brains behind the bling-bling Post 2011

  • While Kraftwerk gave us identikit machine men, since the 1980s Michael Clark has crowded po-mo's slippery surfaces with a dazzling pick-n-mix of punk, pop and ballet where androgynous personas sport outlandish costumes.

    Skye Sherwin: A Good Look 2011

  • This is good news for the aforementioned kidz, and for the students who have bypassed the traditional 10-year wait to discover the po-mo irony lurking in all childhood favourites, and taken the cheese-loving mouse straight to their irritating hearts.

    This Week: Donald Trump, David Cameron, Rastamouse 2011

  • I think what bothers me the most is that it's supposed to look like fancy sleight-of-hand po-mo storytelling when it only increases my suspicion that they are making it up as they go along, and going back to patch up inconvenient inconsistencies.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Roger Sutton 2009

  • The ironic theme in English writingand I don't mean po-mo* irony, I mean the irony of someone like Defoe or Dickensis either in you or it isn't.

    A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty 2010

  • Thirty years later, hip-hop language is a little more po-mo.

    The brains behind the bling-bling Post 2011

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