Everything, All the Time, Everywhere
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere A radical new history of a dangerous ideaPost-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. Post-modernism stood for…
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere
A radical new history of a dangerous ideaPost-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century.
It was also the forcing ground of the 'post truth', by means of which western values got turned upside down.But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today.He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes David Bowie, the Ipod, Frederic Jameson, the