Meaning

Syllabic abbreviation of postmodernism..

Definitions by Sense

1. Syllabic abbreviation of postmodernism.
2. Syllabic abbreviation of postmodern.

Example Sentences

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Now the band has released its most po-mo puzzle box of anguish yet.

Word Forms

• more po-mo
• most po-mo

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