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The Politics of Postmodernism

01 Jan 1989-
TL;DR: In this article, the postmodernist representation is de-naturalized the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history, Re-presenting the past: 'total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text.
Abstract: General editor's preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Representing the postmodern: What is postmodernism? Representation and its politics, Whose postmodernism? Postmodernity, postmodernism, and modernism. 2. Postmodernist representation: De-naturalizing the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history. 3. Re-presenting the past: 'Total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text. 4. The politics of parody: Parodic postmodern representation, Double-coded politics, Postmodern film? 5. Text/image border tensions: The paradoxes of photography, The ideological arena of photo-graphy, The politics of address 6. Postmodernism and feminisms: Politicizing desire, Feminist postmodernist parody, The private and the public. Concluding note: some directed reading. Bibliography. Index.
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TL;DR: The Dutch tulip has become an intricate object, an amalgam of organic material, cultural norms, and technological tooling as discussed by the authors, and it is no longer an exclusive product of nature, for its cultivation increasingly depends on treatment with chemical and biotechnological means.
Abstract: duced, people used to admire plastic tulips for their realistic quality. Consumers were charmed by the obvious advantages of these fake flowers: they never withered, and every tulip looked absolutely perfect. When I buy a bouquet of real tulips these days, it strikes me how much they resemble plastic ones. By and large, the famous Dutch tulip is no longer an exclusive product of nature, for its cultivation increasingly depends on treatment with chemical and biotechnological means. The advantages are obvious: the flowers remain fresh much longer, and every single tulip meets the requirements of standardized size, shape, and color. Whereas before, we wanted the artificial object to look like a real one, we have now entered an era in which we want the real object to look like “perfected nature.” We are no longer satisfied with a plastic imitation of an organic object, yet neither are we satisfied with nature’s own imperfect products. So we tinker with flowers and treat them with chemical and other techniques, until they meet our aesthetic standards. The contemporary tulip, in other words, has become an intricate object, an amalgam of organic material, cultural norms, and technological tooling. This new preference for the enhancement—instead of imitation— of natural material also pertains to the human body. Dentists who, in the 1960s, did not think twice about pulling a patient’s teeth and replacing them with a set of dentures (cheap and low-maintenance), now make every effort to save the original ivories. They have an ex-

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TL;DR: This article explored the significance for citizenship education of claims that Western society is undergoing a major cultural reorientation, known by its protagonists as postmodernism, which is said to have wide-ranging implications for knowledge, morality, politics and individual identities.
Abstract: This paper explores the significance for citizenship education of claims that Western society is undergoing a major cultural reorientation, known by its protagonists as postmodernism, which is said to have wide‐ranging implications for knowledge, morality, politics and individual identities. In particular, the posited changes raise doubts about the future of citizenship, and the discussion reviews two responses to these questions: Heater's optimistic proposal for a return to the classical ideal, and Wexler's pessimistic assessment of the prospects for citizenship in a society dominated by television and the consumption of images. A third perspective is suggested, based on the expansion of the idea of citizenship from civil, political and welfare entitlements to greater participation in the cultural and economic dimensions of everyday life. It is argued that such a concept can inform a comprehensive and coherent approach to citizenship, and a successful curriculum in citizenship education.

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  • ...For Hutcheon, the postmodernist style 'takes the form of self-conscious, selfcontradictory, self-undermining statement' (Hutcheon, 1989. p. 1) which works to de-naturalise general conventions and specific forms of representation by 'using and ironically abusing them'....

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  • ...Yet popular television and film are in themselves no less contradictory and open to subversion than other forms, and while there may be few examples of these forms having eschewed realist narrative and transparent conventions of representation (Hutcheon, 1989), the potential exists....

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16 Dec 2020
Abstract: Il volume raccoglie i contributi del II Convegno Internazionale dei Dottorandi del Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia e dello State Institute for Art Studies di Mosca Taking and Denying: Challenging Canons in Arts and Philosophy (23-25 settembre 2020). Сборник включает материалы II Международной Конференции аспирантов Департамента Философии и Культурного Наследия Университета Ка’ Фоскари в Венеции и Государственного Института Искусствознания в Москве Taking and Denying: Challenging Canons in Arts and Philosophy (23-25 сентября 2020). The volume includes papers presented at the II International Conference of PhD students of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the State Institute for Art Studies in Moscow Taking and Denying: Challenging Canons in Arts and Philosophy (23-25 September 2020). Taking and Denying Challenging Canons in Arts and Philosophy edited by Giovanni Argan, Maria Redaelli, Alexandra Timonina

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TL;DR: In this article, two planning stories drawn from face-to-face interviews illustrate how two practitioners facing similar problems adopt different versions of the professional protocol to justify their actions, in ways that obscure the liberal paradox between freedom and justice.
Abstract: Planners rely on the protocol of the professional planner to cope with the politics of planning. However, this protocol promises more than it delivers as a source of moral authority, and delivers more than it promises as a source of political power. The protocol simultaneously resolves and reproduces the liberal paradox between freedom and justice. Hence, the ambivalence planners frequently express about their encounters with power on the job may reflect their use of this protocol.Two planning stories drawn from face-to-face interviews illustrate how two practitioners facing similar problems adopt different versions of the professional protocol to justify their actions. Analysis of each tale, using critical and postmodern theory, explores how the professional protocol excuses the exercise of power in ways that obscure the liberal paradox. A third planning story offers an example of how a practitioner handles the inherent tension of professional practice in a liberal society without using the professional ...

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Cites background from "The Politics of Postmodernism"

  • ...Useful because it deconstructs familiar dualisms, offering multiple differences where before there had been only two (Murphy 1989; Hutchinson 1989)....

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  • ...familiar dualisms, offering multiple differences where before there had been only two (Murphy 1989; Hutchinson 1989)....

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