po-mo meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

po-mo

noun

Etymology A truncation.

Syllabic abbreviation of postmodernism.

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:
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:

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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:

adj

Etymology A truncation.

Syllabic abbreviation of postmodern.

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:
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:

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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:

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