Introducing Postmodernism by Appignanesi, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents First, let’s consider the WORD… Part One: The Genealogy of Postmodern Art

What’s Modern? The Shock of the Old Dialectical Antagonism What’s MODERNISM? Picasso’s Big Bang The Crisis of Representation Cézanne: the View Contains the Viewer The “Science” of Cubism The End of Original Art? Modern is Postmodern The Sublime Genealogy of a Modernist tree Machine-Aesthetic Optimism Constructivism Stalinist Totalitarianism The Tragic Failure of Abstract Expressionism DADA! Marcel Duchamp and the Readymades The Aura of the Artist The Event Installations The Supreme Master of Po Mo Art? Was Duchamp to Blame? ENDGAME We’re keeping pace with modernity… Expiry Date False Postmodernisms Eclectic Postmodernism A “Real” Postmodernism? What you see is what you get… Legitimation The Simulacrum

Part Two: The Genealogy of Postmodern Theory

Structuralism Meanings and Signs Signification The Binary Model Figures of Speech: Metaphor and Metonymy Semiology Structural Anthropology Brief Critique of Structuralism Poststructuralism The Death of the Author Writing: Degree Zero …Poststructuralist Blues… No Exit from Language Deconstruction J’ACCUSE! “Différance” The Accuser Accused… The Structures of Power/Knowledge Art and Power/Knowledge Eugenics: measuring the excluded inferior Some possible conclusions What is Power? The Fiction of the Self The Imaginary or “Mirror Phase” The Symbolic Order Not entirely silenced… No Place in History What is Postmodern Feminism? The end of the story… Scientific Legitimation Knowledge is a post-industrial force of production Theories of Everything The Anthropic Principle A Retraction… Genetics

Part Three: The Genealogy of Postmodern History

Po Mo Vernacular Computerizing Difference Simulated Reality and Disneyland Welcome to the Holocaust Theme Park The Installation of Memory Loss Hypermodernism: the Memory Loss of Reality Hyperreal Finance Welcome to Cyberia! A Walk on the Wild Side The War as NOT seen on TV The first Cyberwar? Only (re)Produce Cyberian Streetscenes “I wannabe a wigger” Karaoke… …and Serial Killings X-rated Cybersex Games Cyborgs and Schwarzenegger Madonna, Cybergirl Zapping or Zero-Consciousness Endlessly Contemporary Amnesia Zapped-out Hypermodernism Icons of the Respectable Right The Satanic Verses and Postmodern Panic Third World Postmodernism The End of History Teleology Eschatology and the last Men Virtual Reality A Post-Marxist Repentance Endgame… Return of the “Grand Narrative” Philosophers? Bug-eyed into the 21st Century Did you wish for “9/11” too? The Fourth World War War on Terrorism… as seen on TV The Clone in the Scrap-yard Virus or Blowback? The New Bolsheviks The Liberal Consensus The Last Grand Narrative The Future is Tomorrow’s Past The Art of Terrorism What is Postmodern Now? Cold Comfort in Science The End of Culture Beyond our Conscious Perception Neither God, the Cosmos nor Consciousness

Further Reading Acknowledgements Biographies Index

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