CONTENTS
Preface - A refolution in five parts 6
Chapter 1 ORIGINS AND BATTLES
PM is Critical Modernism The Many Deaths of Modernism Two Views of Post-Modernism Post-modern Speaks Us Screams in the Cathedral Modernism as a Protestant Crusade Success Tames the Avant-garde
Chapter 2 HYBRID CULTURE 14
Double Coding and Irony
Not Even Pastiche
Complexity and the Enigmatic Signifier
Post-modern Art - Cross-coding with Content
Irony on the Verge of Cynicism
Chapter 3 THE BLURRED SOCIETY
The Rise of the Cognitariat
The Triumph of the Muddle Class
The Rise of Socitalism
Cyclical, Linear and Crystalline Time
Chapter 4 WANING NATIONS,
RISING HETERARCHY 120
Destructive Modernity
The Transnational Heterarchy
New World Order as Heterarchy
Being Wise before the Event
The Post-modern States
One Cheer for the EU
The Search for an Effective Heterarchy
Chapter 5 COSMOGENESIS AND THE
UNIVERSE PROJECT 144
Belief in a Universe 13.7 Billion Years Big Complexity as a Measure of
Quality Two Types of Evolution A Cultural Drive? The Universe Project A Jumping Universe
Chapter 6 CRITICAL MODERNISM 180
Creative to be Critical
A Critical Iconography
A Critical Coding
A Critical Spirituality?
Critical Theory Carves up Doomsday Fatigue
Critical Modernism as a Continuous Dialectic
The White Elephant Theory of Modernism
The Ten-year Rule and Continuous Refolution
Hidden Tradition or Process?
Critical Modernism - a Conscious Movement?
Notes & References 230
Index 234