po-mo

1. uncountableSyllabic abbreviation of postmodernism.

   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).

   2001, Newsweek - Volume 137, page 82

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   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.

   2006, Fred Newman, Lois Holzman, End Of Knowing, →ISBN, page 1

   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.

   2009, James Der Derian, Critical Practices in International Theory: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 250

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1. Syllabic abbreviation of postmodern.

   Now the band has released its most po-mo puzzle box of anguish yet.

   2015 July 31, Spencer Kornhaber, “Titus Andronicus and the Joy of Angst”, in The Atlantic

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   This is also becoming very po-mo that we've got ahead of ourselves and we've skipped over some of your fiction.

   2004, Maria Fusco, Ian Hunt, Put about: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing, page 76

   After reading the manuscript of this book, her feeling is that the current fans are 'more po-mo', more diverse, more ironic, more able to laugh at themselves than those a decade earlier; but the earlier legacy certainly continues, and it was very evident during the research for this book.

   2005, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch, Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who

   Josh got sidetracked somehow onto whether or not “Delia's Gone” is too po-mo to be misogynist, and I went home early.

   2014, Gemma Files, We Will All Go Down Together, →ISBN

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of postmodernism.

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

   2014, Ken Allinson, Victoria Thornton, London's Contemporary Architecture: An Explorer's Guide, →ISBN, page 46

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   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.

   1999, The Architects' Journal - Volume 209, page 22

   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.

   2010, Darko Suvin, Defined by a Hollow, →ISBN

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1. alternativeAlternative form of postmodern.

   Po-Mo art critics express sarcastic nostalgia for his allegorical frescoes.

   1999, River Styx - Issues 54-57, page 61

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   If anyone should edit a book of Po-Mo texts ("innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics, and various unclassifiable texts written by the most radical, subversive literary talents of the postmodern new wave") it's probably Larry McCaffery, and his Avant-Pop: Fiction For A Daydream Nation (Fiction Collective Two, $7) doesn't disappoint.

   1995, David Johnson, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Blue Mesa Review, No Six, →ISBN, page 210

   Nothing could be less Po-Mo, or more elegant, something project architect Bruce Wood was quick to point to when I raised the issue of how differently one might detail this sort of "veneer" brick wall from the old-fashioned fully structural kind: between Kallmann's point and Wood's are a host of issues thoughtful architects like KMW can be depended upon to work through on every job.

   1999, Douglass Shand-Tucci, Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-2000, →ISBN, page 357