Dictionary

po-mo en · ADJ

Etymology

A truncation.

Meanings

1. Syllabic abbreviation of postmodern.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

po-mo en · NOUN

Etymology

A truncation.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Syllabic abbreviation of postmodernism.
   • 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:
   • 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: