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Understanding Postmodernism, #3.

CONCEPT

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:


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Writers and artists had to make such choices because they needed systematic and comprehensive alternatives to the dominant ideals of cultural modernism best represented by Enlightenment thinkers who emphasized a secular rationality promoting empiricism, material progress, and increasing democratization.

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Lunas 6, 28.

DIARY

I’m going to go quickly today because I’ve a lot to do and time isn’t waiting.

– YESTERDAY – After work, created a Blockbuster account and got movies. Ate Chicken Parmesan with Jess and Cody. Watched Night of the Living Dead again.

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Lunas 5, 28.

DIARY

– YESTERDAY (SHORT) – After work I met Jess and Cody at Cajun, a bar, and told them about my quite boring day. They went onto to explain that they had, independently of one another, run into Bill Clinton, and that Jess had shook his hand.

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Understanding Postmodernism, #1.

CONCEPT

This “project” is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:


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Part description, part normative projection, and part self-promoting distortion, concepts of modernism and postmodernism have become fundamental for isolating a distinctive experimental tradition in postromantic art and then positing imperatives for change within it.

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