Critical Modernism
Where is Post-Modernism Going? What is Post-Modernism?
(Sprache: Englisch)
Post Modernism is now a worldwide movement in all the arts and disciplines. Post Modern politics varies from the conviction politics of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair to the search for a new liberalism that can combine multiculturalism and universal rights.
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Post Modernism is now a worldwide movement in all the arts and disciplines. Post Modern politics varies from the conviction politics of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair to the search for a new liberalism that can combine multiculturalism and universal rights.
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After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating a Critical Modern response today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that many modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a critical mass, a Modernism 2 , and become a conscious tradition.
After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post-Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating Critical Modernism today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that many modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a 'critical mass,' a Modernism2, and become a conscious tradition.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Critical Modernism “
Preface - A refolution in five partsChapter 1 ORIGINS AND BATTLES
PM is Critical Modernism
The Many Deaths of Modernism
Two Views of Post-Modernism
Post-modern Speaks Us
Screams in the Cathedral
Modernism as a Protestant Crusade
Success Tames the Avant-garde
Chapter 2 HYBRID CULTURE
Double Coding and Irony
Not Even Pastiche
Complexity and the Enigmatic Signifier
Post-modern Art - Cross-coding with Content
Irony on the Verge of Cynicism
Chapter 3 THE BLURRED SOCIETY
The Rise of the Cognitariat
The Triumph of the Muddle Class
The Rise of Socitalism
Cyclical, Linear and Crystalline Time
Chapter 4 WANING NATIONS, RISING HETERARCHY
Destructive Modernity
The Transnational Heterarchy
New World Order as Heterarchy
Being Wise before the Event
The Post-modern States
One Cheer for the EU
The Search for an Effective Heterarchy
Chapter 5 COSMOGENESIS AND THE UNIVERSE PROJECT
Belief in a Universe 13.7 Billion Years Big
Complexity as a Measure of Quality
Two Types of Evolution
A Cultural Drive?
The Universe Project
A Jumping Universe
Chapter 6 CRITICAL MODERNISM
Creative to be Critical
A Critical Iconography
A Critical Coding
A Critical Spirituality?
Critical Theory Carves up Doomsday Fatigue
Critical Modernism as a Continuous Dialectic
The White Elephant Theory of Modernism
The Ten-year Rule and Continuous Refolution
Hidden Tradition or Process?
Critical Modernism - a Conscious Movement?
Notes & References
Acknowledgements
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Charles Jencks
Simon Jenkins, Journalist and Author: 'After 200 years of hyperactive and sometimes disastrous adolescence, Modernism finally may be growing up and coming to terms with its own problems. In this challenging work Jencks shows why, and what it may look like.'Ian Buruma, Author and Henry R Luce Professor at Bard College: 'Charles Jencks does not necessarily court your agreement; he wants you to think, and then think again. He is an enemy of received opinions and sloppy clichés. That is what makes his latest book so provocative and such a delight to read.'
Felipe Fernandez Armesto, Professor of History, Tufts University: 'Charles Jencks never stops refreshing our minds. Now - on a subject on which his previous work seemed insuperable - he breaks new ground. He redefines postmodernism's place in modernity and, with his usual wit, clarity and fluency, he explains how and why the grandest of grand narratives - our integrated history of the universe - survives and thrives.'
Rem Koolhaas, Architect and Author: 'That Critical Modernism is a tautology turned into an oxymoron is perhaps its greatest strength: as Jencks argues, the critical and the modern certainly need each other.'
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Charles Jencks
- 2007, 5. Aufl., 160 Seiten, Maße: 19,3 x 2,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0470030119
- ISBN-13: 9780470030110
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Critical Modernism “
"The post man still delivers" (Building Design, April 2007)"Thirty years on from the publication of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, its author explains why we're all modernists now." (BDonline, April 2007)"Charles Jencks has revamped his seminal tome on postmodernism". (Icon Magazine, June 2007)
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