Understand Postmodernism: Teach Yourself [3 ed.] 9781444133981, 1444133985

Table of contents :
Meet the author
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Introduction


1. Postmodernisms

Postmodernism is everywhere
Pre-history
Modernity and Enlightenment
Modernity and modernization
In or after modernity?
Nothing new?
A distinction
Postmodernism’s elasticity


2 Issues in ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture (I): architecture and literature

The demolition of modernist architecture
Literature: mind the gap
The cultural mix


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 art world as they know it?


4 The loss of the real

On television
Welcome to Planet Baudrillard
Baudrillard’s influences


5 The deconstruction of meaning

Structuralism
Poststructuralism
The influence of deconstruction
Problems of meaning and value


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


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


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? Some problems of cultural relativism
Post-postmodernism?


Timeline
Glossary
Taking it further
Index

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