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An indispensable guide to this sometimes challenging domain.
Using contemporary examples to further your understanding, it takes a broad look at theorists in a range of disciplines. Whether you're encountering postmodernism for the first time, or you need a quick reference to support your studies, this guide offers a comprehensive introduction to the key ideas in this thought-provoking philosophy.
Understand Postmodernism includes:
| Chapter 1: Postmodernisms Postmodernism is everywhere Pre-history Modernity and Enlightenment Modernity and modernization In or after modernity? Nothing new? A distinction Postmodernism's elasticity Chapter 2: Issues in 'high' and 'low' culture (I): architecture and literature The demolition of modernist architecture Literature: mind the gap The cultural mix Chapter 3: Issues in 'high' and 'low' culture (II): visual art A preliminary note Make it new! Playing among the ruins: a brief history of postmodernism in the art world Modernism and the autonomy of art Andy Warhol The end of the world as they know it? Chapter 4: The loss of the real On television Welcome to Planet Baudrillard Baudrillard's influences Chapter 5: The deconstruction of meaning Structuralism Poststructuralism The influence of deconstruction Problems of meaning and value | Chapter 6: Postmodern identities (I): transformations of the self The changing nature of the self The stylization of life Identity in the city Cyberpeople The next sexual revolution? You will never know the real me: Madonna Masks of femininity Identity as construction Chapter 7: Postmodern identities (II): theories of subjectivity Michel Foucault: the invention of man Let's talk about sex The deconstructed self: Jacques Lacan The dispersed subject Is the postmodern condition schizophrenic? The fiction of expression Chapter 8: Postmodern politics Lyotard: when worlds collide The transformation of Marxism Postmodernism, truth and history Postmodern space Theorizing the city Local versus global culture Postcoloniality Does postmodernism mean not believing in anything? Post-postmodernism? . . . . . . |
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Glenn Ward lectures in Visual Culture at the University of the West of England.
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I'm still not sure if postmodernism is a social condition, a cultural experience, or an abstract idea. It's possibly all three. Perhaps it's something else. But let's not worry about that right now.
What I do know, for sure, is this introductory book packs one hell of a punch: it's just full of eye-opening, thought-provoking ideas, all, thankfully, concisely and cogently expressed. This stuff's intellectual heroin; it may well blow your mind. Don't say you haven't been warned.
Really, if you`ve ever had the feeling (however dimly) that we're living in "new times" (epochal change "new times") - that is, consciousness, culture, and the organisation of society are not what they used to be - then this is likely to be the "postmodern condition" you've encountered. Further, if you, like me, have a mind that's just a bit relativistic, then you may well be a natural to all this. You've got the gene, as they say. Congratulations. This book's the baby, then; it'll give your thoughts some definition, a home.
Seriously, if you're interested in learning about essentialism, anti-essentialism, deconstruction, discourse, post-structuralism, hyper-reality, incommensurability, language games, semiotics, death of the author, post-humanism, metaphysics of presence, social constructivism, sexualities, cyberpunk, cyberfeminism, incredulity towards metanarratives, society as spectacle, "high" and "low" culture, Madonna's multiple identity, death of the real, intertextuality, knowingness, the anthropology of non-places, micro-political subversion, centrisms, Warhol's hybridity, boundary blurring, the poetics of place, bricolage, simulation, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE, then this wide-ranging book's for you. Most definitely.
Honestly, a thoroughly outstanding starting point. I can't praise it enough.
Well done, Mr Ward. (Someone, please, give the teacher an apple.)
What I do know, for sure, is this introductory book packs one hell of a punch: it's just full of eye-opening, thought-provoking ideas, all, thankfully, concisely and cogently expressed. This stuff's intellectual heroin; it may well blow your mind. Don't say you haven't been warned.
Really, if you`ve ever had the feeling (however dimly) that we're living in "new times" (epochal change "new times") - that is, consciousness, culture, and the organisation of society are not what they used to be - then this is likely to be the "postmodern condition" you've encountered. Further, if you, like me, have a mind that's just a bit relativistic, then you may well be a natural to all this. You've got the gene, as they say. Congratulations. This book's the baby, then; it'll give your thoughts some definition, a home.
Seriously, if you're interested in learning about essentialism, anti-essentialism, deconstruction, discourse, post-structuralism, hyper-reality, incommensurability, language games, semiotics, death of the author, post-humanism, metaphysics of presence, social constructivism, sexualities, cyberpunk, cyberfeminism, incredulity towards metanarratives, society as spectacle, "high" and "low" culture, Madonna's multiple identity, death of the real, intertextuality, knowingness, the anthropology of non-places, micro-political subversion, centrisms, Warhol's hybridity, boundary blurring, the poetics of place, bricolage, simulation, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE, then this wide-ranging book's for you. Most definitely.
Honestly, a thoroughly outstanding starting point. I can't praise it enough.
Well done, Mr Ward. (Someone, please, give the teacher an apple.)
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