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_bJEN
100 _aJencks, Charles
245 _aCritical modernism where is post-modernism going? what is post-Modernism?
260 _bJohn Wiley & Sons
_aGreat Britain
_c2007
300 _a240p.
500 _aCONTENTS 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
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