po-mo

See also: Po-Mo

English

Etymology

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Noun

po-mo (uncountable)

1. Short for postmodernism.
   • 2001, Newsweek - Volume 137, page 82:

     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).

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

     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.

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

     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.

Adjective

po-mo (comparative more po-mo, superlative most po-mo)

1. Short for postmodern.
   • 2004, Maria Fusco, Ian Hunt, Put about: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing, page 76:

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

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

     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.

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

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