"Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself."
- Jean Baudrillard

What is Postmodernism?

http://www.freedonia.com/panic/panic_contents.html
The Panic Encyclopedia, bills itself as "The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene".

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Articles_Gen/Postmodern_Blackness_18270.html
Bell Hooks on "Postmodern Blackness"

http://www.hydra.umn.edu/
Peter Krapp's theory site- (resources on theory, with a particularly strong suite of pages devoted
 to the tradition of deconstructive theorists) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html
An excellent metasite... vast resources.

http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Issues/Pomo/pomovrvw.htm
Postmodernism on SWIRL.

http://www.duke.edu/~wgrobin/ethics/surfmisc.html#pomo
An excellent portal site.. techno-history, pomo, etc.

http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/poststruct.html
"Some Post-Structural Assumptions" by John Lye, Brock U.

http://www.haberarts.com/homejava.htm
Postmodernism and Art history through the eyes of John Haber, a brilliant writer and critic.

http://www.dhalgren.com/Doom/index.html
"This book is a theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture..."

Theorizing -- Feminism and Postmodernity: A Conversation with Linda Hutcheon (1997)

 

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