“Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of… revolutionary avant-gardism.”
Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism, ch. 9 (1985)
1980s
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Sometimes attributed to Winston Churchill, it is in fact a slight misquote of "A joke's a very serious thing" from the 1763 poem "The Ghost" by Charles Churchill.
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“A joke's a very serious thing.”
Book IV, line 1386
The Ghost (1763)
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The Irresponsible Self (2004)
A lecture at the New England Conservatory in 1993, quoted on http://www.therestisnoise.com/2006/06/ligeti.html