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Book SynopsisDavid Rudrum is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the author of
Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature (2013) and the editor of
Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates (2006).
Nicholas Stavris is a PhD student at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where he is writing a thesis on the legacy of postmodernism in contemporary fiction.
Trade ReviewI'm more than happy to see the postmodern supplanted. It's time! * Linda Hutcheon, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada *
Rudrum and Stavris have put together a fascinating collection of speculations, arguments, and manifestos that engage in very different ways with the question of postmodernism's demise. That this question is shown to involve asking whether there actually is or was a single cultural tendency that can be labelled "postmodernism", or whether its aftermath can be similarly labelled by a single term, is a sign of the editors' own open-minded (postmodern?) approach. * Derek Attridge, Professor of English, University of York, UK *
It may well be, as the editors suggest, that postmodernism was the last time we looked coherent enough to oppose ourselves. If so, then
Supplanting the Postmodern provides the dual service of recalling, as postmodernism becomes forgettable, its inescapability, while doing away with all efforts to prolong it. I have difficulty imagining serious aesthetic discussion apart from the background this book provides. * R. M. Berry, Professor of English, Florida State University, USA *
A useful collection of writings, helpfully designed to make students think about contemporary cultural dynamics. * Ian Patterson, University of Cambridge, UK *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part One: The Sense of an Ending “Epilogue: The Postmodern – In Retrospect” “Gone Forever But Here To Stay: The Legacy of the Postmodern” Linda Hutcheon “Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust” Ihab Hassan “Postmodernism Grown Old” Steven Connor “The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond” Alan Kirby “They Might Have Been Giants” John McGowan From
Post-Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism Jeffrey Nealon
Part Two: Coming to Terms with the New Remodernism Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, “The Stuckist Manifesto” Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, “Remodernism”
Performatism Raoul Eshelman, “Introduction” Raoul Eshelman, “Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism (
American Beauty)”
Hypermodernism Gilles Lipovetsky, from “Time Against Time, or The Hypermodern Society”
Automodernism Robert Samuels, “Auto-modernity after Postmodernism: Autonomy and Automation in Culture, Technology, and Education”
Renewalism Neil Brooks and Josh Toth, “Introduction: A Wake and Renewed?” Josh Toth, from
The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary Altermodernism Nicolas Bourriaud,
The Altermodern Manifesto Nicolas Bourriaud, “Altermodern”
Digimodernism Alan Kirby, from
Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure our Culture Metamodernism Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, “Notes on Metamodernism”
Conclusions “Note on the Supplanting of ‘Post-’” David Rudrum “The Anxieties of the Present” Nicholas Stavris Bibliography Index
