Open AccessBook
The Politics of Postmodernism
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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.read more
Citations
More filters
The Daily Show and Crossfire: satire and sincerity as truth to power
Megan Boler,Etienne Turpin +1 more
TL;DR: For those invested in the ideal that a news press should serve the democratic function of informing its citizenry, Stewart's nightly-broadcast news parody The Daily Show (TDS) offers a touchstone of sanity as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Seeking Environmental Awareness in Postmodern Fictions
TL;DR: The authors posits that postmodern fictions can create environmental awareness, as they incorporate ecological issues in their narratives in a dialogic interaction with their textual strategies as well as disclose how the discursive constructions of nature shape and condition the human valuation and understanding of the environment.
Journal ArticleDOI
Utopia and Debt in Postmodernity; or, Time Management in Inherent Vice
TL;DR: Inherent Vice as discussed by the authors is a postmodernist novel that simultaneously registers a contemporary intensification of postmodern/late capitalism and, crucially, participates in a minor current in postmodernism, one which insists on collective agency and utopian thinking despite the atomization and isolation of subjects accomplished by late capitalism and which, against all odds, remembers how to think historically.
The Sound of Yesteryear on Display: A Rethinking of Nostalgia as a Strategy for Exhibiting pop/rock Heritage
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a rethinking of nostalgia as a strategy for disseminating pop/rock heritage and explore the potential of music as a trigger for nostalgic experiences in exhibitions.