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PostModernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the twentieth century Postmodernism stood for everything modernism rejected fun exuberance irresponsibility But beneath its glitzy surface postmodernism had a dirty secret it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism It was also the forcing ground of the post truth by means of which western values got turned upside down
But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continues to today
He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes David Bowie the iPod Frederic Jameson the demolition of PruitIgoe Madonna PostFordism Jeff Koons Rabbit Deleuze and Guattari the Nixon Shock The Bowery series Judith Butler and more
We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens Can we do anything else than suffer from buyers remorse
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