Nice essay on television and cinema from the Feral Scholar blog.
Charles
http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/10/guest-friday-film-review-no-country-for-old-men/#comment-150122
Guest Friday Film Review: No Country for Old Men
10th February 2008, 01:18 am by DeAnander
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the insights of post-modernism?
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I.e. no insight at all. Except insofar as mimicking the cynicism,
incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary culture is
insight. But traditionally the goal of intellectuals was not to
mimic mystification, but to penetrate to its core and create coherent
understanding in its place.
What exactly was all that? A review of a review that then turned into
a critique of modern society?
Does anyone remember the clever Coen Bros film, Barton Fink. Perhaps
they peaked with that film, if only they had then embraced it as a
statement about their own 'art'.
Barton Fink (John Turturro)
I believe the terms 'post-modernist' and 'post-structuralist' can be
used to refer fairly specifically in the history of design and
architecture. 'Post-' is a pre-fix that means 'coming after'.
Extending that to other areas, post-structuralism in the case of
social and formal sciences means
Fredric Jameson's The Condition of Postmodernity is AFAIK still definitive
on postmodernity. He tackles the question of why postmodernism is hegemonic
in the universities. Crucially, he explains to the left that postmodernism
is not a policy, but is something much more deeply ingrained than that
And what, pray tell, are Hegel's answers?
What do you think of David Harvey's THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY?
If there is such a thing as postmodernity (the condition), distinct
from postmodernism as a theoretical approach, when do you think it
began? It seems to me that historical amnesia
