| Description |
xxii, 438 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of colour plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Post-contemporary interventions |
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Post-contemporary interventions.
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| Contents |
1. Culture: the cultural logic of late capitalism -- 2. Ideology: theories of the postmodern -- 3. Video: surrealism without the unconscious -- 4. Architecture: spatial equivalents in the world system -- 5. Sentences: reading and the division of labor -- 6. Space: utopianism after the end of utopia -- 7. Theory: immanence and nominalism in postmodern theoretical discourse -- 8. Economics: postmodernism and the market -- 9. Film: nostalgia for the present -- 10. Conclusion. Secondary elaborations |
| Summary |
This wide-ranging work seeks to crystallize a definition of postmodernism. The author looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from high art to low; from market ideology to architecture, from painting to punk; film, from video art to literature |
| Analysis |
Postmodernism |
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Postmodernism |
| Notes |
Reprinted in 1995 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-430) and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism.
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| LC no. |
90034074 |
| ISBN |
0822309297 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822309291 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822310907 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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