Post Modernism


The Crying of Lot 49
Slaughterhouse-Five
White Noise
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Infinite Jest
Gravity’s Rainbow
Simulacra and Simulation
Catch-22
V.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Lolita
House of Leaves
Pale Fire
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Invisible Cities
Just as sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, irony is the feeblest kind of indictment. And yet it has become the go-to rhetorical stance of the post-modernist. By maintaining a cool, affectless stance, irony colludes, unconsciously or otherwise, with what it overtly disdains.
Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

What do we do in a hot cold war, when perhaps our reality was so detonated that we sense the surreal nature of this timeline, because it is, in fact, entirely different, and what has transpired here to create so absurdly alien a landscape as the alien city-change of atomized clouds, of the ideological equivalent of a nuclear bomb? But the weapon is crafted to meet the kind of warfare, and this decade’s weapon will not strike in one explosion, because mind is not like that, but slow and persisten ...more
Alice Minium

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