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Supplanting the Postmodern: An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and Culture of the Early 21st Century

Supplanting the Postmodern: An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and Culture of the Early 21st Century

Edited by David Rudrum and Nicholas Stavris
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ISBN 13
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9789389391046
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2019
For more than a decade now a steadily growing chorus of voices has announced that the 'postmodern' literature, art, thought and culture of the late 20th century have come to an end. At the same time as this, the early years of the 21st century have seen a stream of critical formulations proclaiming a successor to postmodernism. Intriguing and exciting new terms such as 'remodernism', 'performatism', 'hypermodernism', 'automodernism”, 'renewalism', 'altermodernism', 'digimodernism' and 'metamodernism' have been coined, proposed and debated as terms for what comes after the postmodern. Supplanting the Postmodern is the first anthology to collect the key writings in these debates in one place. The book is divided into two parts: the first, 'The Sense of an Ending', presents a range of positions in the debate around the demise of the postmodern; the second, 'Coming to Terms with the New', presents representative writings from the new '–isms' mentioned above. Each of the entries is prefaced by a brief introduction by the editors, in which they outline its central ideas, point out the similarities and/or differences from other positions found in the anthology, and suggest possible strengths and limitations to the insights presented in each piece. Table of contents Introduction Part One: The Sense of an Ending “Epilogue: The Postmodern – In Retrospect” “Gone Forever But Here To Stay: The Legacy of the Postmodern” Linda Hutcheon “Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust” Ihab Hassan “Postmodernism Grown Old” Steven Connor “The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond” Alan Kirby “They Might Have Been Giants” John McGowan From Post-Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism Jeffrey Nealon Part Two: Coming to Terms with the New Remodernism Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, “The Stuckist Manifesto” Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, “Remodernism” Performatism Raoul Eshelman, “Introduction” Raoul Eshelman, “Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism (American Beauty)” Hypermodernism Gilles Lipovetsky, from “Time Against Time, or The Hypermodern Society” Automodernism Robert Samuels, “Auto-modernity after Postmodernism: Autonomy and Automation in Culture, Technology, and Education” Renewalism Neil Brooks and Josh Toth, “Introduction: A Wake and Renewed?” Josh Toth, from The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary Altermodernism Nicolas Bourriaud, The Altermodern Manifesto Nicolas Bourriaud, “Altermodern” Digimodernism Alan Kirby, from Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure our Culture Metamodernism Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, “Notes on Metamodernism” Conclusions “Note on the Supplanting of 'Post-'” David Rudrum “The Anxieties of the Present” Nicholas Stavris Bibliography Index