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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I also don't see 'postmodernism' as something entirely new, but a style or package of cultural modes linked to particular tendencies in capitalist development that we have, in fact, seen before in history (1870s - early 1900s)
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Well that is where you are wrong. The post-modern condition is not a style. You seem to confuse style with a tendency of a system (in this case, modernity or capitalism).
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How does style emerge without any relation to historical modes of production or organization? That's a very interesting claim.
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It does historically emerge. But to confuse the process of constitution with what is constituted in such and such way is the very pinnacle of intellectual laziness.
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