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--- On Sun, 7/8/12, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: From: joseph berg <[email protected]> Subject: "What is striking is precisely the degree of consensus in postmodernist discourse that there is no longer any possibility of consensus, the authoritative announcements of the disappearance of final authority and the promotion and recirculation of a t To: "aesthetics-l" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, July 8, 2012, 11:40 PM "What is striking is precisely the degree of consensus in postmodernist discourse that there is no longer any possibility of consensus, the authoritative announcements of the disappearance of final authority and the promotion and recirculation of a total and comprehensive narrative of a cultural condition in which totality in no longer thinkable." If that means that art cannot exist without a consensus, without an authority and without an aesthetic criteria, then isn't that what I have been saying all along? (The following is the source of that quote): http://www.amazon.com/Postmodernist-Culture-Introduction-Theories-Contemporar y/dp/0631200525/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341815633&sr=1-1&keywords=con nor+postmodern+culture#reader_0631200525
