Aufhebunga Bunga
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On whether we can salvage anything from postmodernism. Have we left postmodernity – and if so, can can we be properly dialectical about it: see it as progress and catastrophe all at once? Is there a moment of truth to postmodernism amidst all the falsity?
We discuss the left intelligentsia’s abandonment of materialism; phoney cultural populism; the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe; Knausgaard’s six volume ‘Min Kamp’; and the end of cultural rebellion.
Readings:
The Apprentice in Theory: Fan, Student, Star, Catherine Liu & Devan Bailey on Avital Ronell, LA Review of Books
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Frederic Jameson, NLR
Itemised, review of Knausgaard by Jameson, LRB
The Myth of Pruitt-Igoe, documentary
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The Grenfell Tower reference was a good touchstone
Post modernism maybe a way of trying to create a classless world after the defeat of the working class. The intellectuals said they were anti elite, as the Trumpists say now. You would think that postmodernist would mean "socialist" as capitalism produced the modern world. However, modern art refers to non-capitalist art at least until "modern art" sold out.
still a bit too academic for me, but thanks