Everything, all the time, everywhere : how we became post-modern / Stuart Jeffries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffries, Stuart, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

378 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso Books, 2021.

Summary:

"Where modernism was serious, absorbed in grand narratives and committed to social progress, its successor was a riot of colour and irreverence, toying with forms and styles, committed to none of them and to nothing. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism hid a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism, the bridgehead of the 'post-truth' era in Western values"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Shock Doctrines, 1972: Nixon Shock | Martha Rosier | Anti-Oedipus

2. Disappearing Acts, 1975: The Passenger | David Bowie | Cindy Sherman

3. No Future, 1979: Sex Pistols | Margaret Thatcher Jean-Francois Lyotard

4. Living for the City, 1981: New York | London | Poundbury

5. We Are Living in a Material World, 1983: Sophie Calle | Apple Macintosh | Madonna

6. The Great Acceptance, 1986: Rabbit | Quentin Tarantino | Musee d'Orsay

7. Breaking Binaries, 1989: `The End of History?' | Queer Theory | The Rushdie Fatwa

8. Deserts of the Real, 1992: Gulf War | Vegas Revisited | Silicon Valley

9. That's Entertainment, 1997: I Love Dick | Netflix | Grand Theft Auto

10. All That Is Solid Melts into Air, 2001: 9/11 | iPods | Debt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jeffries, Stuart. Everything, all the time, everywhere

ISBN:

9781788738224

1788738225

OCLC:

1236091535