Postmodernism: a reader

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Postmodernism: An introduction
PART ONE: Founding Propositions
	Introduction
	1 Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?
	2 Note on the Meaning Of ‘Post-’
	3 The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point
	4 Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic Of Late Capitalism
PART TWO: Modernity Complete and Incomplete
	Introduction
	5 Modernity - An Incomplete Project
	6 The Structure of Artistic Revolutions
	7 The Last Days Of Liberalism
	8 The Fall Of the Legislator
PART THREE: Aesthetic and Cultural Practices
	Introduction
	9 Toward a Concept Of Postmodernism
	10 Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers
	11 The Photographic Activity Of Postmodernism
	12 Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question Of ends
	13 The Evil Demon of Images and The Precession Of Simulacra
	14 The City Of Robots
	15 Against Intellectual Complexity in Music
PART FOUR: Crisis in the Avant-Garde
	Introduction
	16 The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s
	17 The Negation of the Autonomy Of Art by the Avant-Garde
	18 The Sublime and the Avant-Garde
	19 The International Trans-Avant-Garde
PART FIVE: Architecture and Urbanicity
	Introduction
	20 Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance
	21 The Emergent Rules
	22 The Duck and the Decorated Shed
	23 Postmodern
PART SIX: Politics
	Introduction
	24 Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism
	25 Politics and the Limits Of Modernity
	26 The Condition Of Post-Marxist Man
	27 Toward a Principle Of Evil
PART SEVEN: Feminism
	Introduction
	28 Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism
	29 Feminism and Postmodernism
	30 Social Criticism without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism
	31 The Demise Of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?
PART EIGHT: Periphery and Postmodernism
	Introduction
	32 Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today
	33 Postmodernism and Periphery
	34 Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the ‘postmodern’ condition
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index