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I suspect that the opaque French architects of post-modernity -- whose names do not, thankfully, appear on the pages of Evolving in Monkey Town -- would agree with Evans, but they would need 50 inscrutable pages to make the same point.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Evolving in Monkey Town: A Good Read on Religious Doubt 2010
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I suspect that the opaque French architects of post-modernity -- whose names do not, thankfully, appear on the pages of Evolving in Monkey Town -- would agree with Evans, but they would need 50 inscrutable pages to make the same point.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Evolving in Monkey Town : A Good Read on Religious Doubt 2010
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I am calling this avant-garde, the culture that emerges after post-modernity ?
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"I cannot help but wonder how far we can push post-modernity and ironic viewership until it deflates into itself," writes Drew Morton at Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope, where he gives Grindhouse a B -.
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[F] or all the emphasis put on Jia [Zhang-ke] 's bracing indictment of globalization and post-modernity in China, little attention is paid to the levity of his work, the wit and even euphoria that he affords his characters, which contrasts so sharply with the political cynicism of those critics writing about his work.
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There was indeed a kind of naivete to the pre-modernity of those days, an innocence now lost in the transition to modernity and post-modernity.
Nathan Gardels: A Talk With Orhan Pamuk: Caressing the World With Words 2009
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I met the director, Richard Loncraine, in the elegant lounge of the Potsdamer Platz Sony Complex (far from 1950's decor, this was state-of-the-art post-modernity), and he was as jolly as his film.
Karin Badt: Great Fun at the Berlinale: My One and Only 2009
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The study of biology, however, has entered the more complex world of post-Enlightenment and post-modernity.
Darwin after modernity Burke's Corner 2009
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In similar vein, the assumption should be tested that the rise in intermarriage is a consequence of the dilution of Judaism or Jewish identity, or that South African Jewry is simply “catching up” with Jews in the rest of the free world in the conditions of modernity and post-modernity.
South Africa. 2009
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Going forward into post-modernity means getting past god-speak in politics altogether.
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