Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook497 pages7 hours
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
A radical new history of a dangerous idea
Post-Modernity 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 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism 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 continue to today.
He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes David Bowie, the Ipod, Frederic Jameson, the demolition of Pruit-Igoe, Madonna, Post-Fordism, Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit', Deleuze and Guattari, the Nixon Shock, The Bowery series, Judith Butler, Las Vegas, Margaret Thatcher, Grand Master Flash, I Love Dick, the RAND Corporation, the Sex Pistols, Princess Diana, the Musee D'Orsay, Grand Theft Auto, Perry Anderson, Netflix, 9/11
We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?
Post-Modernity 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 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism 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 continue to today.
He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes David Bowie, the Ipod, Frederic Jameson, the demolition of Pruit-Igoe, Madonna, Post-Fordism, Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit', Deleuze and Guattari, the Nixon Shock, The Bowery series, Judith Butler, Las Vegas, Margaret Thatcher, Grand Master Flash, I Love Dick, the RAND Corporation, the Sex Pistols, Princess Diana, the Musee D'Orsay, Grand Theft Auto, Perry Anderson, Netflix, 9/11
We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?
Unavailable
Read more from Stuart Jeffries
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Related to Everything, All the Time, Everywhere
Related ebooks
Panics and Persecutions: 20 Quillette Tales of Excommunication in the Digital Age Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sacred And The Profane: An Investigation Of Hipsters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFolk Opposition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What Was Neoliberalism?: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIntroducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/51930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAgainst Creativity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We: Reviving Social Hope Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTRANSIENT LIGHT, FLEETING TIME Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsL:: A Novel History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe New World Disorder: how the West is destroying itself Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPicture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cultural Challenge: A Trilogy by Yannis Andricopoulos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOccupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEvil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Most Undeserving Case Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStreet Culture: 50 Years of Subculture Style Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sub Pop Cult - The New Reiteration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century (Revised & Updated Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Novel of Ideas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Popular Culture & Media Studies For You
100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Communion: The Female Search for Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Element Encyclopedia of 20,000 Dreams: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And The Mountains Echoed Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thick: And Other Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Psychology of Totalitarianism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dream Dictionary from A to Z [Revised edition]: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Science of Monsters: The Origins of the Creatures We Love to Fear Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Regarding the Pain of Others Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Notebook Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Butts: A Backstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gamer's Bucket List: The 50 Video Games to Play Before You Die Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Everything, All the Time, Everywhere
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
1 rating0 reviews