Ransom exhibit reminds us we are all moderns now
We are all moderns now.
The advent of 9/11 spelled not only the end of irony, but also of irony's close cousin, postmodernism.
That late 20th-century cultural movement, which bounced from the street to the college classroom with the ease of a hip-hop lyric, mixed high art with popular culture, radical politics with rarefied theory, fragments from the known past with a suggestion that there could be no definitive human expression.
