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Book SynopsisA bold new challenge to postmodern theory The increasing irrelevance of postmodernism requires a new theory to underpin our current digital culture. Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has taken center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalized postmodernism. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm
digimodernism, a name comprising both its central technical mode and the privileging of fingers and thumbs inherent in its use.
Beginning with the Internet (digimodernism''s most important locus), then taking into account television, cinema, computer games, music, radio, etc., Kirby analyzes the emergence and implications of these diverse media, coloring our cultural landscape with new ideas on texts and how they work. This new kind of text produces distinctive forms of author and reader/viewer, which, in turn, lead to altered notions of authority, ''truth'' and legitimization. With users intervening physically in the creati
Trade Review[Digimodernism] provides a convincing explanation for the plethora of cultural phenomena and practices Kirby groups under digimodernism… Kirby’s concepts and examples offer a challenging new lens through which to investigate the world. -- Catriona Bonfiglioli, Media Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia * Discourse & Communication *
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Arguable Death of Postmodernism; 2. The Digimodernist Text; 3. A Prehistory of Digimodernism; 4. Digimodernism and Web 2.0; 5. Digimodernist Aesthetics; 6. Digimodernist Culture; 7. Toward a Digimodernist Society?; Conclusion - Endless; Notes; Works Cited.
