{"product_id":"critical-modernism-where-is-postmodernism-going-what-is-postmodernism-9780470030103","title":"Critical Modernism Where is PostModernism Going","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePost-Modernism is now a worldwide movement in all the arts and disciplines. Post-Modern politics varies from the conviction politics of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair to the search for a new liberalism that can combine multiculturalism and universal rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Charles Jencks has revamped his seminal tome on postmodernism\". (\u003ci\u003eIcon Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e June 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The post man still delivers\" (\u003ci\u003eBuilding Design\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Thirty years on from the publication of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, its author explains why we're all modernists now.\" (\u003ci\u003eBDonline,\u003c\/i\u003e April 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface - A refolution in five parts.  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 ORIGINS AND BATTLES.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePM is Critical Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e The Many Deaths of Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e Two Views of Post-Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e Post-modern Speaks Us.\u003cbr\u003e Screams in the Cathedral.\u003cbr\u003e Modernism as a Protestant Crusade.\u003cbr\u003e Success Tames the Avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 HYBRID CULTURE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDouble Coding and Irony.\u003cbr\u003e Not Even Pastiche.\u003cbr\u003e Complexity and the Enigmatic Signifier.\u003cbr\u003e Post-modern Art - Cross-coding with Content.\u003cbr\u003e Irony on the Verge of Cynicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 THE BLURRED SOCIETY.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of the Cognitariat.\u003cbr\u003e The Triumph of the Muddle Class.\u003cbr\u003e The Rise of Socitalism.\u003cbr\u003e Cyclical, Linear and Crystalline Time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 WANING NATIONS, RISING HETERARCHY.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDestructive Modernity.\u003cbr\u003e The Transnational Heterarchy.\u003cbr\u003e New World Order as Heterarchy.\u003cbr\u003e Being Wise before the Event.\u003cbr\u003e The Post-modern States.\u003cbr\u003e One Cheer for the EU.\u003cbr\u003e The Search for an Effective Heterarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 COSMOGENESIS AND THE UNIVERSE PROJECT.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBelief in a Universe 13.7 Billion Years Big.\u003cbr\u003e Complexity as a Measure of Quality.\u003cbr\u003e Two Types of Evolution.\u003cbr\u003e A Cultural Drive?.\u003cbr\u003e The Universe Project.\u003cbr\u003e A Jumping Universe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 CRITICAL MODERNISM.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreative to be Critical.\u003cbr\u003e A Critical Iconography.\u003cbr\u003e A Critical Coding.\u003cbr\u003e A Critical Spirituality?\u003cbr\u003e Critical Theory Carves up Doomsday Fatigue.\u003cbr\u003e Critical Modernism as a Continuous Dialectic.\u003cbr\u003e The White Elephant Theory of Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e The Ten-year Rule and Continuous Refolution.\u003cbr\u003e Hidden Tradition or Process?\u003cbr\u003e Critical Modernism - a Conscious Movement?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes \u0026amp; References.\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements.\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402266190167,"sku":"9780470030103","price":56.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470030103.jpg?v=1730479882","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-modernism-where-is-postmodernism-going-what-is-postmodernism-9780470030103","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}