![]() Modernist art (think: Van Gogh transforming personal misery into beauty) sought to redeem the world, he suggests. Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fred ric Jameson The Marxist theorist argues that art has been colonised by commerce. Photograph: Jenny Holzer/ARS/John MarchaelĢ. Jenny Holzer’s Inflammatory Essays posters are on display at Tate Modern, London. What makes Kraus’s book revolutionary is not just its reclamation of female subjectivity and sexuality, but its still-shocking sense that truth and fiction are not opposites, but locked in a lubricious lambada.Ī world artists could scarcely change … from the Survival Series by Jenny Holzer (1983–85), Times Square, New York. This is despite the fact that in real life, the postmodern critic Dick Hebdige issued Kraus with a cease and desist letter, and compared her intrusion into his life to the press’s stalking of Princess Diana. The rest of the book is the epistolatory story of a woman, “Chris Kraus”, seizing control of the narrative. I Love Dick by Chris Kraus In this heroically unreliable memoir-cum-novel, Kraus follows her professor husband to California on sabbatical, falls in love with one of his colleagues, Dick, and sends him lots of funny yet unrequited letters. But some are terrific pieces of writing that no Postmodernism Generator could produce.ġ. Some of the 10 books below are chock-full of high-stepping nonsense and I read several of them, dear reader, so you didn’t have to. Hopefully my book is about gibberish rather than an example of it. But in the end I gave in, writing my new book Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern. ![]() There’s only so much James Stirling and Salman Rushdie a guy can take. ![]() Still less did I want to inhabit its ugly buildings and formally playful novels. ![]() I didn’t want to spend time inside sentences such as those quoted. I long put off writing about postmodernism, the slippery successor to modernism which seems to be an expression of neoliberal economics as much as it is an effort to dismantle cultural hierarchies. ![]()
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