Understand Postmodernism

Meet the author Only got a minute? Only got fives minutes? Introduction 1 Postmodernisms Postmodernism is everywhere Pre-history Modernity and Enlightenment Modernity and modernization In or after modernity? Nothing new? A distinction Postmodernism's elasticity 2 Issues in 'high' and 'low' culture (I): architecture and literature The demolition of modernist architecture Literature: mind the gap The cultural mix 3 Issues in 'high' and 'low' culture (II): visual art A preliminary note Make it new! Playing among the ruins: a brief history of postmodernism in the art world Modernism and the autonomy of art Andy Warhol The end of the art world as they know it? 4 The loss of the real On television Welcome to Planet Baudrillard Baudrillard's influences 5 The deconstruction of meaning Structuralism Poststructuralism The influence of deconstruction Problems of meaning and value 6 Postmodern identities (I): transformations of the self The changing nature of the self The stylization of life Identity in the city Cyberpeople The next sexual revolution? You will never know the real me: Madonna Masks of femininity Identity as construction 7 Postmodern identities (II): theories of subjectivity Michel Foucalt: the invention of man Let's talk about sex The deconstructed self: Jacques Lacan The dispersed subject Is the postmodern condition schizophrenic? The fiction of expression 8 Postmodern politics Lyotard: when worlds collide The transformation of Marxism Postmodernism, truth and history Postmodern space Theorizing the city Local versus global culture Postcoloniality Does postmodernism mean not believing in anything? Some problems of cultural relativism Post-postmodernism? Timeline Glossary Taking it further Index