When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

Its name, which derives from the neighbouring Westminster Abbey, may refer to either of two structures: the Old Palace, a medieval building complex that was destroyed by fire in 1834, and its replacement New Palace that stands today.

His son, the wine wholesale dealer William (“ Willy ”) Huth ( 1877 – 1967 ), took over the business in 1904 and, a few years later, commissioned the replacement of the building by a new one on the same site.

The tri-colored building on the extreme left is the World Trade Center's unfinished replacement, One World Trade Center.

On January 3, 1971, the replacement building, later called the East Building and now called the Lakeside Center, opened with a main exhibition hall.

The building is now closed for demolition and replacement by a new design, inspired by traditional Scottish buildings, by Reiach and Hall Architects.

Significant changes to the cathedral were made by the architect James Wyatt in 1790, including replacement of the original rood screen and demolition of the bell tower which stood about 320 feet ( 100 m ) north west of the main building.

The annexation is to be used for a drug rehabilitation center ; the building's current occupants demand that the hospital find them replacement housing before the building is demolished despite the building being condemned sometime before.

Initially started as a project within Apple inc to provide a replacement for the Mac OS, it was later spun off into a joint venture with IBM, for the purpose of building a competing platform to Microsoft Cairo and NeXTSTEP, as part of the AIM alliance.

The replacement, a two-story stone building, was partially destroyed by fire in 1888, but was repaired and remained in operation until the present courthouse was constructed in 1929.

Some of the sculptures were saved and incorporated into the replacement building.

A replacement church building was constructed in 1930 and is now designated as a national historic site.

That gym itself was the replacement for the old rock gym which was torn down in 2000 to build an annex to the Middle Grades building.

In turn, this building was demolished and a replacement erected in 1903.

As the main factory building sat vacant ( for nearly 10 years ), the city faced economic catastrophe and possible bankruptcy if replacement income was not found.

The replacement building at Pearl Street and Ticket Avenue was completed in 1950 and served as company headquarters for forty-two years.

A replacement senior apartment building has since been built.

In 1883 representations to the Napier Commission suggested the building of a replacement, but it was 1901 before the Congested Districts Board provided an engineer to enable one to be completed the following year.

Several restorations since 1958 to address structural damage have resulted in the extensive replacement of tiles, mosaics, ceilings, and walls such that " nearly everything that one sees in this marvelous building was put there in the second half of the twentieth century ", but without significant change to its original form and structure.

In a 2005 study of the NTSM and its replacement by the RCM, David Wright observes that the building is " more suggestive of a young ladies ' finishing school than a place for the serious training of professional musicians.

Housing was a major policy area under Wilson's Labour government, 1964 to 1970, with an accelerated pace of new building, as there was still a great deal of unfit housing needing replacement.

In 1258, however, a great fire destroyed much of the original building, and a larger replacement structure, also Romanesque in style and reusing the two towers, was constructed over the ruins of the old church and consecrated on 23 April 1263.

Instead of setting throughput at a fixed air replacement rate, carbon dioxide sensors are used to control the rate dynamically, based on the emissions of actual building occupants.

A replacement Student's Union building is slated for this site.

Marshall pondered the reason for this, and pondered too the replacement of one member of the three-man group.

He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.

) At this late date, it is impossible for St. Michael's College to find a suitable replacement for me.

The objective behind this action was to place in one agency the responsibility for the management, assignment, and replacement of all vehicles.

In addition to the three major original equipment segments of the electronics business, the steady growth in the market for replacement parts continues year by year.

The film has an adhesive on the back which permits it to be stripped onto the acrylic panels forming the sign, and also to be stripped off for replacement by new copy as required.

Had Hoijer substituted for his 15 adjectival slots 15 good animal and plant items, his rate of stem replacement would have been lower and the age of Athabascan language separation smaller.

Elaborate studies have been made in labor surplus areas in order to identify sufficient numbers of local job vacancies and future replacement needs for certain skills to justify training programs for those skills.

From time to time it has been proposed as a replacement for The Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem, including television sign-offs.

A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking.

In propositional logic, associativity is a valid rule of replacement for expressions in logical proofs.

The story of Ealdred being deposed comes from the Vita Edwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor, but the Vita Wulfstani, an account of the life of Ealdred's successor at Worcester, Wulfstan, says that Nicholas refused the pallium until a promise to find a replacement for Worcester was given by Ealdred.

This was essentially a replacement for Apple's connector that had conventional phone jacks instead of Apple's round connectors.

One common replacement for LocalTalk was PhoneNet, a 3rd party solution ( from a company called Farallon, now called Netopia ) that also used the RS-422 port and was indistinguishable from LocalTalk as far as Apple's LocalTalk port drivers were concerned, but ran over the two unused wires in standard four-wire phone cabling.

After designing their own fully functional replacement for the TRS-80 expansion interface ( which was never commercialized ) the company realized that they could do better than just re-designing the expansion interface.

* A replacement card for the original TRS-80 compatible video card, software compatible to the original one, but with added color and very high resolution capabilities.

On the software front, work was being done to implement the replacement for the aging " user interface " of CP / M, ( the Command Console Processor CCP ) with the more modern ZCPR.

Finally a replacement for the aging Z80 processor was being developed in the form of an Intel 8086 board, and additional 512K 16 bit memory boards.

British and American forces also deployed vehicles designed for a close support role, but these were conventional tanks whose only significant modification was the replacement of the main gun with a howitzer.

* Addington Palace: purchased as a replacement for Croydon Palace in 1807 ; sold in 1897.

The anthem developed as a replacement for the Catholic " votive antiphon " commonly sung as an appendix to the main office to the Blessed Virgin Mary or other saints.

Doubts about the future of Abergavenny Cattle Market have been raised following the granting of planning permission by Monmouthshire County Council for demolition of the cattle market, and its subsequent replacement by a supermarket, car park, and library.