“Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase?”, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff writes on CNN.com – “You don’t get it.” According to Rushkoff, the recent protests, demonstrations, bridge-ins, walk-ins and sit-ins are less exceptions to that old postmodern rule of compromise and neoliberal fundamentalism than symptoms of a new paradigm. Anyone who says he has no idea …
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The first line of a press release by Am Nuden Da directs the reader as to how to approach the text that follows. The preamble to an exhibition of some form, the context of which we are presumably about to be enlightened, it invites us to engage “(Romantically)”. The words that follow might, one assumes, conform …
David Shields’ Reality Hunger is subtitled “A Manifesto.” The whole title is: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. When was the last time you saw that sitting on a bookshelf–that word, “manifesto”? When was the last time you wrote one, or wished somebody else would, or waved one in somebody’s face and said, “Look, here’s how it’s …
Last month the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University hosted Common love. As the catalogue aptly put it, the show exhibited a rather ‘unconventional exploration of love’ ‘Love?’ Yes. Love. L.O.V.E. And there could not have been a timelier moment. Of late love has been one of the most surprising, interesting and uplifting tropes in …
It is clear by now that Notes on Metamodernism is characterised by an emerging worldview that regards contemporary culture from a transcendental perspective. Essentially, the metamodern seeks understanding by moving beyond the modern and the postmodern into uncharted territory typified by a deep fascination with oscillating between binaries of all sorts. As mentioned in the …
The heathen Israelites of 3500 years ago stood before an idol, a calf cast out of solid gold. Even today we can understand the appeal of such an object—in the absence of their spiritual leader, they wanted something tangible to represent their hopes and beliefs, even if it was the admittedly secular apotheosis of wealth …
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