The Parameters of Postmodernism

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Anti-Art or Ante-Art?......Page 18
Monumental Art or Submonumental Art?......Page 21
Eagleton and the Apocalyptic Fallacy......Page 22
Introducing the B-Effect......Page 24
Introducing the C-Effect......Page 25
Deploring/Exploring Hyperspace: Jameson and Cage......Page 27
Stupefaction or Enlivenment?......Page 30
Benjamin and the Loss of Aura......Page 32
Barthes, Belsey, and the Death of the Author......Page 33
Brger and the Death of the Avant-Garde......Page 35
Bonito-Oliva, Baudrillard, and the Collapse of the New......Page 37
Beckett, Brecht, and the Attractions of Antinarrative......Page 38
Beckett\'s Poetics of Failure/Brecht\'s Poetics of Interrogation......Page 40
Beckett, Brecht, and the Groan of the Text......Page 44
Eagleton, Jameson, and Dehistoricized Culture......Page 46
Cage, Kostelanetz, and Value Judgments......Page 48
Jameson, Rauschenberg, and Premature Exasperation......Page 50
Cage, Rauschenberg, and Ryman......Page 51
Cage and Consumption......Page 52
Collective Narrative and the Struggle with Simulacra......Page 54
Depersonalized Culture or Repersonalized Culture?......Page 56
Cage and the Antilogic of the Text......Page 58
Beckett, Cage, and Nothing......Page 61
Beckett, Cage, and Programmatic Composition......Page 62
Purposeful Purposelessness or Nothing to Be Done?......Page 64
Jameson, Bourdieu, and the Destruction of Art and Taste......Page 66
Chion, Cage, and New Aesthetic Rationales......Page 67
Postmodernism\'s Purist Aesthetic......Page 69
Postmodernism\'s Hybrid Aesthetic......Page 71
Feldman, Crazy Contradiction, and the Conceptual, Artistic Life......Page 72
Pure ~H~;Habermas and Communicative Rationality......Page 74
Beuys, Adorno, and the Silence of Marcel Duchamp......Page 77
Beuys, Cage, Buchloh, and the B-B-Effect......Page 81
Jappe, Jameson, and the Concept of Utopia......Page 85
Bense, Concrete Poetry, and the Dwindling of the Poetic Element......Page 87
Chopin, Human Vitality, and Technological Civilization......Page 90
Conz and the New Saints of the Avant-Garde......Page 92
A Problem in Design: Lax and Mann......Page 94
Postmodernism at Two Speeds: Hassan, Janco, and Seuphor......Page 98
Rainer, Robbe-Grillet, Reich, and the Turn to Interobjectivity......Page 102
Robbe-Grillet and the Re-turn to the Subjective Type of Writing......Page 105
Rainer and the Re-turn to Identity......Page 107
Reich and the Re-turn to Historical Realities......Page 109
Multimedia Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Gaburo and Ashley......Page 111
Monk and the Re-turn to Recurrence......Page 114
Umberto Eco and the Re-turn to the Middle Ages......Page 117
Grass and the Destruction of Mankind......Page 121
Grass, Mann, and the Re-turn to Forbidden Literature......Page 123
Ernst, Carrington, and the Re-turn of Surrealism......Page 126
Carrington, Cage, Beuys, and the Poetics of Resistance......Page 129
Cage, Carrington, Barthes, Burroughs, Bense: From Artha to Moksha......Page 131
Cage, Wolf, and the Re-turn to the Third Alternative......Page 133
Wolf, Mann, and the Authority of Literary Genres......Page 135
Mller, Beuys, and the Elevation of the Berlin Wall......Page 137
Mller, Brecht, and the Petrification of Hope......Page 140
Mller, Wilson, and the Re-turn to the Classics......Page 142
Huyssen and the Endgame of the Avant-Garde......Page 146
Huyssen, Popper, and the Electrification of the Avant-Garde......Page 149
Buuel, Breton, Benjamin, Baudrillard, and the Myths of Mechanical Depersonalization......Page 154
DeLillo, Mller, Lyotard, Kroker, and the Panic Sensibility......Page 157
Ballard, The Kindness of Women, and Catharsis......Page 159
Beyond the Disappearance of Value: Anderson and Acker......Page 161
Toward Effective Communication: Kruger and Holzer......Page 165
Appropriation, Neutralization, and Reconciliation: Tillers and Johnson......Page 167
Independent Internationalism: Finlay and Lax......Page 169
Anderson and American Active Freedom......Page 172
Glass and Wilson: Alienation Effect or Empathy Effect?......Page 174
Burroughs, Walker, and the Pattern of Chaos......Page 176
Beckett, Warrilow, and the Clarity of Spirit......Page 177
Considered in Diagrammatic Summary: The Phases of Postmodernism......Page 179
The Modes of Modernism and Postmodernism......Page 181
Baudrillard or Cage? Degeneration or Affirmation?......Page 182
Burt, Wendt, and the Positive Parameters of Postmodernism......Page 185
Index......Page 190