Postmodern theory may be the most loathed concept ever to have emerged from academia. Developed within literature and philosophy departments in the 1970s, it supposedly told us that facts were ...

Is there one philosophy we can blame for all that has gone wrong with human reasoning? Some believe so – it goes by the name of postmodernism. A method of thought that traces its roots to Europe in ...

Architecture has never been confined to the act of building. It constantly negotiates between material practice and intellectual reflection, yet throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ...

I once asked a group of my students if they knew what the term postmodernism meant: one replied that it’s when you put everything in quotation marks. It wasn’t such a bad answer, because concepts such ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The wonderful thing about postmodernism is what Charles Jencks, the writer and designer who pretty much popularised ...

The modern world died at 3.32pm in St Louis, Missouri, on 15 July 1972. The dynamiting of the notorious Pruitt Igoe housing scheme was a noise that resonated around the world, at least according to ...

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With a plot featuring accidental dismemberment, death by leeches, serial arsonists, and rampant child abuse, A Series of Unfortunate Events seemed to descend from the Grimm's Fairy Tales tradition of ...