AFTER POSTMODERNISM

Jan 21, 20222 min read

WHAT IS METAMODERNISM?

A Quick Intro to What Is Emerging After Postmodernism QUICK VERSION In the sequence of cultural paradigms (traditional, modern,...

Aug 7, 20208 min read

After Postmodernism: 10. My Work and the 'Specter of Identity'

GOD AND THE ‘SPECTER OF IDENTITY’ Of crucial importance in the last scene of the previous post, I think, is Joel’s decision to see Spirit...

Aug 7, 202011 min read

After Postmodernism: 9. My Work and Aesthetically-Mediated Belief

GOD AND AESTHETICALLY-MEDIATED BELIEF Responding with denial to the damning critique just leveled, the sunken deity defiantly refuses...

Aug 7, 20208 min read

After Postmodernism. 8. My Work and the Return of Dimensionality

GOD, the first volume in the Icon, is an epic poem I wrote between 2011 and 2015, and in its themes and formal strategies exemplifies...

Aug 6, 20207 min read

After Postmodernism: 7. Summary: A Reconstructionist Period

TOWARDS A (ROUGH) OUTLINE OF OUR CURRENT PERIOD As can be deduced from Lyotard, Harvey, and Jameson, Post-modernism in many ways...

Aug 6, 20208 min read

After Postmodernism: 6. Metamodernism

Here I explore the metamodern paradigm, put forward by Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van den Akker, and Allison Gibbons.

Aug 6, 20208 min read

After Postmodernism: 5. Performatism

EXHIBIT B: PERFORMATISM We turn then to performatism, a paradigm for understanding post-Postmodernism articulated by Raoul Eshelman, a...

Aug 6, 20209 min read

After Postmodernism: 4. Remodernism

What comes after postmodernism? I start examining the first of three proposed paradigms: Remodernism. Begun by British artists reacting agai

Aug 6, 20206 min read

After Postmodernism: 3. Spirit and the Specter of Identity

Using Ihab Hassan's essay, "Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust," we chart our way from late postmodernism into its aftermath

Aug 6, 202011 min read

After Postmodernism: 2. The End of an Era

Postmodernism dominated cultural and intellectual production during the 70s and 80s. In the 1990s, its energy began to dissipate; the...

Aug 6, 202011 min read

After Postmodernism: 1. What (Really) Was Postmodernism?

We find ourselves in strange times. World historical forces are currently at work which (it seems safe to say) no one saw coming, and...

Jul 31, 20206 min read

Political Metamodernism

A look at the political currents expressing themselves in terms of the metamodern paradigm.