thunking about the dismal proliferation of micro-genres, micro-brews, micro-tels, etc as a cultural reflection of the flight towards interiority
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Edburg 🌴 Retweeted Fred Scharmen
(see this great thread https://twitter.com/sevensixfive/status/1123363271615176704 …)
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also thunking about the disjunctions and continuities between my bête noire, the stumpy, and Jameson's lucid description of postmodern architecture: the changing nature (leveling?) of the 'hypercrowd'pic.twitter.com/YhlaB6uZFp
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It seems telling to me that the content of particular forms of micro-genre, which have become coupled to 'irrational' forms of politics, often express a nostalgia not for modernity or pre-modernity, but for the vertigo-inducing postmodernity that Jameson descrbes
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Replying to @EBBerger
I think you are confounding two fundamental different categories based on your posts. The postmodern condition as a form of historical dialectic and postmodernism as a style or a template in which you can dump a lot of modernist vagaries.
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Not seeing any difference between those categories.
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Well then you really don't know what post-modern condition as a matter of historical achievement entails. You should friend Charles Jencks instead.
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