Meaning of po-mo | Babel Free

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Syllabic abbreviation of postmodernism.

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“Po-mo has lost its grip. We can't seem to get enough mid-century modern in design, advertising and furniture (those 1929 Barcelona chairs by Mies are perennially chic).”

“However, the recent appearance of a Web site entitled “Everything Postmodern,” a regularly updated listing of “po-mo” on the Internet, suggests neither endings nor beginnings.”

“As the realities of international politics increasingly are generated, mediated, simulated by new digital means of reproduction, as the globalization of new media further confuses actual and virtual forms; as there is not so much a distancing from some original, power-emitting, truth-bearing source as there is an implosion; as meaning is set adrift and then disappears into media black-holes of insignificance, a little po-mo can go a long way.”

“Describing his design as 'an eclectic composition', he had not yet heard of Post-Modernism, but this project featured in an exhibition on the subject. Andreas Papadakis, who took over the magazine Architectural Design in the 1970s and published many of the pioneers of Po-Mo, said: 'The true revolution of the 1970s was a revolution of ideas'. Papadakis asserted that: 'The battle of Po-Mo has been won.”

“In perhaps the only useful instrument Po-Mo has left us, it is indispensable that the spiral be there as a model but it is also indispensable that it be "under erasure" - as it is in Marx, who simultaneously expects collapse of capitalism and works for revolution.”

“This includes a demonstration that Po-Mo can also be structurally acrobatic (here, in the manner the bulding spans across London Wall).”

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